Drive to Alaska

The family guide to driving to Alaska

Drive the Alaska Highway with your family, and know what you are getting into.

I grew up in Alaska and I still drive it. Free tools for the real questions: how many days, how much fuel and money, what to bring across the border, and where the long gaps are.

Plan my trip   Border checklist

Start with a tool

Trip cost and day planner

Pick a starting city, set your daily miles, mpg and fuel price, and see a day by day plan to Anchorage or Fairbanks.

Open the planner →

Canada border checklist

Passports, kids, pets, firearms, food, cannabis and alcohol. A printable list with links to the official rules.

Open the checklist →

Fuel gap guide

How to think about the long empty stretches, plus a quick range check for your own tank.

Check your range →

Miles, liters and CAD

Canada sells fuel by the liter in Canadian dollars. Convert it to what you are used to.

Convert →

Why this site

Most Alaska travel sites are built for cruise passengers. The road trip info that exists is great but mostly in print. I wanted one place, built for a phone, where a family can plan the drive north.

We snowbird between Florida and Alaska, we have done the Alaska Highway with our kids several times, and we have crossed the country in an RV twice. This site is what I wish I had the first time.

[MITCHELL'S TIP] Placeholder: a short opening story about the first time Mitchell drove the highway as a dad.

Guides

1,387 miAlaska Highway, Dawson Creek to Delta Junction
328 miTok to Anchorage
98 miDelta Junction to Fairbanks
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