Chicken, YT to Dawson City, YT - Top of the World Highway

We were up bright and early and in line for the 8am convoy at about 7:40am. The convoy didn’t leave Chicken until a little before 9am. The starting point for the convoy was at “Lost Chicken Creek”. We hoped that wasn’t too descriptive of our upcoming journey. While we waited, we visited with the flag woman. She told us that the night before a big rig had come in with a large piece of excavating equipment, and he couldn’t negotiate a turn in the road. He got into a precarious position where he nearly lost both the rig and excavator over the side. They had to bring in other equipment to stablizie the rig and offload the excavator before they could move the rig. We were glad to have the pilot car as it let us drive down the middle of the road. The edges of the road were still muddy in places from the repairs. And, we knew that the pilot car new the road and would keep us safe. The pilot car and convoy of about a dozen vehicles traveled about 20 miles together. Many of us ran into each other again at the Canadian Border Crossing and at the ferry that crosses from Top of the World Highway into Dawson City.


As we were leaving Chicken, it was VERY foggy. We hoped that we were going to be able to see the views from Top of the World Highway. No worries, the fog cleared.


The Taylor Highway goes to Eagle. We didn’t go all the way to Eagle, we turned onto Top of the World Highway at the junction and headed for the Canadian Border and Dawson City. There is a nice free ferry from the Top of the World Highway into Dawson City, with good views of the Yukon River. The ferry had broken down and they were making repairs on the Dawson City side. We waited nearly 2 hours to cross on the ferry. We arrived in Dawson City about 4:30 pm. It was a long but rewarding day.


We had dinner at Sourdough Jack’s and we went to Diamond Tooth Gerdies, where Grant did the can can with a can can girl. See the pictures; I have proof!!!