Stampede Lodge Coldfoot
Mile 248.8, George Parks Highway, Box 380 Coldfoot, Alaska, 99701, United States
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66° 33' 44"
... Circle is about 200 miles, and it takes several hours to drive because you have to go fairly slow over the dirt parts of the road. About halfway up the road, we saw the Yukon River. We have now seen the Yukon River in three different places: Dawson City, Eagle, and now today on the Dalton Highway. There is a neat bridge that crosses the Yukon River, and the Pipeline crosses the river on the ...
Fairbanks - Coldfoot - Deadhorse - Coldfoot
... Borough, where the forest ends and the tundra begins. We crossed the continental divide at the Atigun Pass where rivers south of here flow into the Pacific Ocean or the Bering Sea while rivers to the north flow into the Arctic Ocean. We traversed a major winter avalanche zone (stunning views) where often artillery shells are fired to clear the slopes above the highway.
Cute little arctic ground squirrels often scamper across the road causing Dave to recall his ...
Coldfoot warm Heart
Drive/Fly from Fairbanks to Coldfoot, north of the Arctic Circle. My notes on this fabulous day from Fairbanks to Coldfoot and back are under another day's blog, from North Pole. I cannot figure out how to edit this info to this page so I am advising that you read that ...
Day 20
Greetings everyone!! We are back at the Arctic Getaway for another night.
Well today was the "Big Plunge" day at the Arctic Ocean and what a great day for it, cloudy, Foggy, rainy, cold, windy a great day for a swim in the Arctic Ocean. First we got up at 0630 and had a great breakfast for fuel to face the upcoming festivities. Then it was off to the Arctic Caribou to register to get to the Ocean, they have to check your passports. Finally after a ...
Day 18
... br> The Dalton Hwy. is one of the top ten Global dirt roads of a thousand miles, round trip so having conquered one of the top 10, the Dempster Hwy in Canada we are stoked and especially in the rain, should get a lot of adrenalin flowing for sure. We took our obligatory departing shots at the beginning at the Dempster sign and off we went, the dirt was a little sloppy and loose but not really too bad, the guys had to watch ...
