the Dempster Highway

this is Canada's most northern highway that passes the arctic circle on its way up to Inuvik
the best time to travel is in Sept when the colours come out and it feels like you are driving on an enormous persian carpet

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[TheVdubFire]

I've just bought a similar beat up vanagon lol planning on similar trip. Do you think these vans can handle the distance and the roads? What mods you think I should do? Thx for the video btway!

[polardiscoball]

@TheVdubFire Of course these vans can go the distance as long as you are alway$ prepared to buy a one way ticket home ; ) Seriously my 83 camper is stock outside of spending an extra $1300 on strong tires and it has made it up the Dempster 3 times. (I work in Inuvik) Every fall when the temps drop to -25 and the gearbox seizes I ship it down to Kamloops in the back of a semi so she's good to go for next summers trip up.

[cowbells4u]

Could you hitchike it?...

[polardiscoball]

@cowbells4u Yes I have heard of truckers picking up hitchikers, might be kinda buggy while yer waiting so bring some bug dope

[Vorash2002]

How far is it between gas stations up there? I mean if I was to do something like that I would obviously carry a few extra gas containters. Im just curious

[polardiscoball]

There is a station at the halfway point 356Km in so no need to bring extra gas. I wasn't sure about the tank in my bus but it was large enough after all.

[quincee33]

@polardiscoball Any tim horton's on th way? lol...no seriously tho, is there enough gas/diesel stations along the highway?

[id780]

Cool video

[DrNick1010]

I remember watching this a few year ago. It's definitely been one of my life goals to drive the Dempster ever since. I feel like I could write a whole novel based on my experiences up there.

[matt086024]

theres also fort mcpherson, aswell as inuvik. eagle lodge isnt a town, its a lodge.

its great to hitchike, perfectly safe, safer than most places. i met a man who walked the whole dempster, pulling a trolly with his belongings behind him. cool.

[timd941]

wow there's only 2 towns on the whole road: eagle lodge and inuvik.

[Eddie9800]

@Vorash2002 I drove the entire hwy on 1 tank of gas in my F 150, still suggest you stop at the gas station though.

[ESponge2000]

I did the trip summer of 2009. I went during the summer solstice when the sun was out 24 hours north of the arctic circle. It was safe and amazing. If you don't want to ride all the way up there, I recommend renting an SUV out of Whitehorse or using Go North.com out of Anchorage. Go North allows unpaved travel. There are actually 2 gas stops along the way. The first is about half way point (Eagle Plains), the second one is 3/4ths of the way up (Fort McPherson).

[DZJX]

i wonder if he ordered her from chinesebrides . org