Muskwa-Kechika Wilderness

[Dave McGowan]

A few times I’ve been up the Alaska Highway for one thing or another and have always enjoyed the beauty of so many parts of the trip. Muncho Lake, Toad River, Teslin Lake … well, I enjoy it all.

The Toad River stop along the Alcan is along one edge of the Muskwa-Kechika country.

There are some great pictures of this open and untamed part of the west. Yes, access is possible to this area larger than Switzerland, (one of these sites below is for a supplier of excursions.) but here are some beautiful pictures of untamed wilderness.

 Muskwa-Kechika Adventures Main page http://go2mk.ca/expedition

 More Pictures https://www.google.ca/search?q=Muskwa-Kechika+Adventures&hl=en&...

 

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/11/muskwa-kechika/vaillant-text

 

http://www.wildernessprints.com/storybook/mk.html

[Stan H]

My family and I drove the Alcan back in '78 and returned in '82. At that time it was gravel all the way (from Dawson Creek I believe). What a great trip! We stayed at motels on the way up and had a camper trailer for the trip down. That trip took up almost 3 weeks. We weould be driving along and spot a lake off to the side. We would pull in, set up camp, and if the fish were bitting stay a few days. It was wild, beautiful country!

 

However, the mosquitos were something else.

[Dave McGowan]

I'm not sure when (we came here in '62) but it was paved to Mile 81.5 sometime around 1960. Some time in the 80s and 90s several sections where re-routed and it's now a few miles shorter and it now goes around some of the worst hills. The barrel shaped crown that existed when you where on it is gone and all but a few short sections is paved.

A lot of development along the highway itself but one doesn't have to get away from it too far and you are in the wilderness.