Construction starts on northern highway

By
Zac Kurylyk
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In four years, you'll be able to push past the end of the Dempster Highway (seen here) to Tuktoyaktuk, in the Northwest Territories on the edge of the Beaufort Sea. Photo: Pierre Racine/Wikimedia
In four years, you'll be able to push past the end of the Dempster Highway (seen here) to Tuktoyaktuk, in the Northwest Territories on the edge of the Beaufort Sea. Photo: Pierre Racine/Wikimedia
In four years, you’ll be able to push past the end of the Dempster Highway (seen here) to Tuktoyaktuk, in the Northwest Territories on the edge of the Beaufort Sea. Photo: Pierre Racine/Wikimedia

Adventure riders with an eye towards northern travels will soon be able to push their travels a little further past the Dempster Highway.

According to the CBC, the federally funded construction of a 140-km highway between Inuvik and Tuktoyaktuk is underway. This will allow riders to push past the Mackenzie River, all the way to the Beaufort Sea and the Arctic Ocean. Previously, the CBC says, the only way past Inuvik was by air or ice road, but the new road will be an all-weather highway. Maybe a CMG expedition by Ural is in order?

Construction of the new road is supposed to be completed in four years; the crews will only work in the winter, when the ground is frozen and hard.

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3 COMMENTS

  2. I can imagine the polar bears setting up a checkpoint on that road at about km #42. “Please stop and open your doors for a quick snack, I mean search!”

    In those conditions, the polar bears probably consider Urals as “Dim Sum”.

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