West Access Route

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The West Access Route is a Canadian trunk road. Like the East Access Route , it is not a highway in the strict sense of the word, but a combination of different roads that provide access to the Alaska Highway from the southwest.

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The starting point of this route is Seattle in the state of Washington , the end point is the symbolic starting point of the Alaska Highway at the intersection of 102nd Av./10th Street in Dawson Creek in eastern British Columbia .

The route runs on different roads:

• Seattle - Bellingham: Interstate 5 (to Exit 256)
• Bellingham - Lynden: Washington State Highway 539
• Lynden - Nooksack: Washington State Highway 546
• Nooksack - Sumas: Washington State Highway 9 (to Huntington border crossing)
• Huntington - Abbotsford: Highway 11 (to Exit 92)
• Abbotsford - Cache Creek: Highway 1 , ( Trans-Canada Highway )
• Cache Creek - Dawson Creek: Highway 97

Significant intermediate stops along the route are (in kilometers):

• 45 Confluence of US Highway 2 to Everett and Wenatchee
• 105 Junction of Washington State Highway 20, access to North Cascades National Park , the Okanagan Valley and Burlington
• 146 Bellingham , Alaska Marine Highway Ferry Terminal , access to Vancouver via Interstate 5
• 187 Sumas / Huntington - border between the United States of America and Canada
• 274 Confluence of the Crowsnest Highway (Highway 3), access to Highway 5 , ( Coquihalla Highway ) and to Hope
• 298 Entering Fraser Canyon, Hell's Gate is about 30 kilometers away
• 383 End of Fraser Canyon at Lytton , junction of Highway 12 to Lillooet
• 418 Spences Bridge, off Highway 8 to Merritt
• 467 Cache Creek , junction of the Trans-Canada Highway to Kamloops
• 573 Junction of Highway 24 , connection to Highway 5
• 582 100 Mile House
• 608 Lac La Hache
• 673 Williams Lake , off Highway 20 to Bella Coola and Tweedsmuir Provincial Park
• 794 Quesnel , junction of Highway 26 to Barkerville
• 913 Prince George , junction with Highway 16 ( Yellowhead Highway )
• 1066 junction of Highway 39 to Mackenzie
• 1105 Pine Pass (874 m) - lowest pass in the Canadian Rockies
• 1215 Chetwynd , intersection of Highway 39, access to Hudson's Hope and Tumbler Ridge
• 1295 junction of Highway 52 to Fellers Heights and Tumbler Ridge
• 1315 Dawson Creek , the beginning of the Alaska Highway