East Access Route
The East Access Route is a Canadian trunk road. It is not a highway in the true sense of the word, but represents a combination of different roads which, coming from the southeast, merge into Dawson Creek in the Alaska Highway .
course
The starting point for this approach is Great Falls in the US state of Montana . Other important stopovers are (numbers in miles / kilometers):
- 118/ 189 - Sweetwater / Coutts - border crossing Montana (USA) to Alberta (Canada) - Interstate 15 / Alberta Highway 4
- 180/ 290 - Lethbridge - Alberta Highway 4 / Alberta Highway 3
- 213/ 344 - Fort Macloed - Alberta Highway 3 / Alberta Highway 2
- 319/ 513 - Calgary - junction with the Trans-Canada Highway
- 490/ 788 - Edmonton - junction on the Yellowhead Highway
- 509/ 829 - Stony Plain - Yellowhead Highway 16 / Alberta Highway 43
- 704/1133 - Valleyview - junction with Alberta Highway 49 as the main entrance to the Northwest Territories
- 778/1250 - Grande Prairie - junction with Alberta Highway 40 ( Bighorn Route )
- 843/1356 - Demmitt / Tupper - Alberta- British Columbia Border - Alberta Highway 43 / BC Highway 2
- 867/1395 - Dawson Creek - The start of the Alaska Highway ( BC Highway 97 ) at 102nd Ave./10th Street
history
The East Access Route is the older of the approaches to the Alaska Highway due to its geographical and historical circumstances. The goods produced here since the late 19th century were transported over the Peace River and road connections; a railroad connection was not established until 1931. Only in this context did the settlement of the region begin to concentrate in one place, and it was not until 1936 that Dawson Creek was founded as a village . It was not until the Alaska Highway was built that the road network, which was still patchy and not always accessible all year round, was expanded.