Haines Highway
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The Haines Highway or Haines Cut-Off (and still often called Haines Road) is a
Klukshu, Yukon, and then continues to Haines Junction. The highway is about 244 km (152 mi) long, of which 72 km (45 mi) is in Alaska
.
The highway was known as Yukon Highway 4 until 1978, when it was renumbered Highway 3. It has no number in British Columbia, but editions of The Milepost up to at least 2004 list it as Hwy 4, a number actually in use on Vancouver Island. The Alaska section is part of Alaska Route 7.
History
The route was originally a trail used by Chilkat
Tlingit traders, which eventually became the Dalton Trail. It was used by some prospectors during the Klondike Gold Rush of 1898-1899; other mining kept the lower Dalton Trail active through the years following its establishment. The British Columbia provincial government converted its portion of the trail to a wagon road in 1909 when copper mining began at Copper Butte and Mt. Glave
. In 1911, 30 tons of ore were shipped from the mines.
The highway was built by the
13 million.In the first decades after the
mudslides in summer, and for a time in the 1960s and 1970s, all vehicles traveling the highway were monitored on radio
. Year-round access was not achieved until 1963.
Complaints over the condition of the road, primarily in Alaska, led to the
grade
improvements, rerouting of dangerous sections, and paving. Responsibility for maintenance is currently shared between the Alaska and Yukon governments.
Major intersections
| State / Province / Territory | Location | km[1] | mi | Destinations | Notes |
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| Alaska | Haines | 0.0 | 0.0 |  Front Street – Haines Ferry Terminal | Alaska Marine Highway |
northern terminus •  Hwy 3 southern terminus | |||||
| British Columbia | | 94.2 | 58.5 | Chilkat Pass – 1,070 m (3,510 ft) | |
| Yukon | | 137.9 | 85.7 | British Columbia – Yukon border | |
Whitehorse | Hwy 3 northern terminus | ||||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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See also
References
- ^ a b Google (January 10, 2018). "Haines Highway in AK, BC, and YT" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved January 10, 2018.
External links
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