Drive to Alaska

Alaska Highway Trip Planner and Cost Calculator

Plan your drive to Anchorage or Fairbanks from Seattle, Great Falls, Denver, Minneapolis, Dallas, Chicago or Orlando. Edit daily miles, mpg, fuel prices and nights.

Distances from the starting cities to Dawson Creek are computed fastest-route driving distances approx for planning only (method below). Your route choice changes them. Check your mapping app. Distances north of Dawson Creek come from The MILEPOST and Bell's (cited below).

Default prices are examples, not current prices. Put in today's numbers.

Mitchell's tip We aimed for about 300 miles a day because we were pulling a trailer. Ashley pre-booked our campgrounds so we would not get stranded if sites were full. The catch is you have to make it to each one every day. We did, but plan your daily miles knowing you are locked in.
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How this planner works

It adds your start city to Dawson Creek (computed, see method below), the Alaska Highway to the border and on to Tok or Delta Junction, then the last leg to Anchorage or Fairbanks. Canada miles use your Canada fuel price converted to USD per gallon. The day plan just splits the total by your daily miles, so treat stop names as rough guides and plan real overnight stops with The MILEPOST or Bell's.

Legs north of Dawson Creek: Dawson Creek to the Alaska border is about 1,187 miles (1,387 total minus 200 border to Delta Junction). Border to Tok is about 92 miles (Tok is at historical mile 1314, the border at 1221.8). Tok to Anchorage is 328 miles. Border to Fairbanks is 298 miles. derived from cited figures

Start city to Dawson Creek method: fastest driving route from each city center to Dawson Creek, BC, computed on October 12, 2026 with the OSRM routing engine on OpenStreetMap road data, rounded to the nearest mile. US miles before the border are the same engine's route from the city to the crossing it uses (Blaine, Sweetgrass or Portal). Google Maps or a different crossing can differ by a few percent. approx