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From the RV Bookstore Traveling to Alaska by RV (or car)? The 2005 Milepost is absolutely, without question, THE guidebook to pack along for your journey! This 57th edition is the current edition until March, 2006 By the editors Packing The MILEPOST® along on an RV or automobile trip to or in Alaska is nearly as essential as filing your tank with gas. This is THE book for travelers who are headed to Alaska, the Yukon Territory, British Columbia, Alberta and the Northwest Territories. Originally simply a log of the Alaska Highway, the Milepost has turned into a highly useful publication for anyone planning to travel the North. The Alaska Highway was a rugged road when it opened for tourist traffic in 1948, and facilities were few and far between. On such a road, a reliable guidebook was essential, and in 1949 The MILEPOST® was born. The MILEPOST® has been guiding travelers to Alaska longer than Alaska has been a state. These days, surfacing on the highway ranges from fair to excellent; there are relatively few steep grades; and services are found an average of every 20 to 50 miles. The MILEPOST® tells you, mile for mile, what's along the route including campgrounds. The first edition of The MILE
"The quintessential reference."— Associated Press The handful of black-and-white photos and maps in the early editions have been replaced by more than 300 color photos; 56 city, vicinity and park maps; and 42 detailed highway strip maps. A popular feature of The MILEPOST® since it began has been the fold-out Plan-A-Trip Map bound into the book. The Milepost covers these highways (most major northern roads have numbers, but few here use the numbers, preferring instead to use the names): Alaska Highway, Atlin Road, Campbell Highway, Canol Road, Cassia Highway, Copper River Highway, Dalton Highway, Dempster Highway, Edgerton Highway/McCarthy Road, Elliott Highway, Glenn Highway/Tok Cutoff, Haines Highway, Hudson's Hope Highway, Klondike Highway, Klondike Loop, Liard Highway, Mackenzie Route, Parks Highway, Richards on Highway, Seward Highway, Sliver Trail Highway, Steese Highway, Sterling Highway, Tagish Road, Taylor Highway, Top of the World Highway, Yellowhead Highway. Field editors who live in Alaska and Canada drive the roads and visit the Inside Passage every year to provide up-to-date, comprehensive information to travelers. When you want to know where you'll find turnouts, gas, food, lodgings, public campgrounds and RV parks, or restrooms; where you're likely to see wildlife; what day trips are available from Anchorage; what shore-excursion-length experiences can be found near Juneau; what Alaska glaciers are easy to reach by road; how to visit a Native fish camp; when salmon run on the Kenai River; or what the Talkeetna Moose Dropping Festival is — The MILEPOST® tells you.
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