{"id":590,"date":"2015-06-27T16:01:07","date_gmt":"2015-06-27T20:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelhorserover.com\/?p=590"},"modified":"2015-07-12T16:01:53","modified_gmt":"2015-07-12T20:01:53","slug":"day-27-june-27-the-beginning-of-the-alcan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelhorserover.com\/?p=590","title":{"rendered":"Day 27 (June 27): The Beginning Of The Alcan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There has been much banter about where The Alaska Highway (The Alcan) begins and ends. The actual road begins at Grande Prairie, which I passed through on the way to Dawson Creek, and ends at Fairbanks; and if you ask residents of either of these places where The Alcan begins and ends, they will often tell you it begins in their respective locale, qualifying this w<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_510\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/steelhorserover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_20150627_125105_hdr.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-510\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-510\" src=\"http:\/\/steelhorserover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_20150627_125105_hdr-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Mile &quot;0&quot;\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/steelhorserover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_20150627_125105_hdr-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/steelhorserover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_20150627_125105_hdr-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/steelhorserover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_20150627_125105_hdr-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/steelhorserover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_20150627_125105_hdr.jpg 1196w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-510\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mile &#8220;0&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>ith, &#8220;It&#8217;s the &#8216;unofficial&#8217; beginning \/ end.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u200e<br \/>\nIn fact, there exists a bit of a niggle: The Alcan officially begins at Dawson Creek, BC; and ends at Delta Junction, AK. The reason for this is the sections of road beyond these points (Hwy 3 in Alaska and Hwy 43 in BC) were already in existence when construction of The Alaska Highway commenced. So, the actual, Alaska Highway does not include these sections.\u200e<br \/>\n\u200e<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_509\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/steelhorserover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_20150627_124656_hdr.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-509\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-509\" src=\"http:\/\/steelhorserover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_20150627_124656_hdr-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"This way to the highway\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/steelhorserover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_20150627_124656_hdr-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/steelhorserover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_20150627_124656_hdr-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/steelhorserover.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_20150627_124656_hdr-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-509\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This way to the highway<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Eh, potato\/potahto; I touched both Grande Prairie and Fairbanks.\u200e<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been much banter about where The Alaska Highway (The Alcan) begins and ends. The actual road begins at Grande Prairie, which I passed through on the way to Dawson Creek, and ends at Fairbanks; and if you ask residents of either of these places where The Alcan begins and ends, they will often [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelhorserover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelhorserover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelhorserover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelhorserover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelhorserover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steelhorserover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":591,"href":"https:\/\/steelhorserover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions\/591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelhorserover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelhorserover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelhorserover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}