The Great Alaskan Adventure

We got a reasonable start and drove to Dease Lake. We parked in a small trailer park, had some lunch, unhooked the trucks and then headed up the Telegraph Creek Road. This is a two hour, 70 mile drive (Minimum) along what is no more than a goat path clinging to the side of a shear cliff. At one point it follows the top of a narrow lava bed with 400 ft. shear drops on either side. From this point a good view of the Stikine River Canyon and the Tahitan River Canyon can be seen. In places the road is barely wide enough for one vehicle let alone two! There were some fantastic views of canyons along the way and we even spotted what we figure was a small forest fire. We were very excited to see the town??? More like a ramshackle collection of abandoned buildings amongst a few inhabited ones. The population of 300 have a Restaurant/Inn/Gift store which was the premier business in town, a school and their own Diesel generating station, and a small church. We had ice cream at the restaurant and then headed back to the trailers. I’m not sure the drive was worth the end result.