List of Yukon territorial highways
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This is a list of provincial highways with numbers under 100 in the Canadian territory of Yukon
. Many were renumbered in 1978.
Yukon
Yukon is the westernmost and smallest of Canada's three federal territories. It was named after the Yukon River. The word Yukon means "Great River" in Gwich’in....
. Many were renumbered in 1978.
| Name | Number | Old # | From | To | Length (km) | Length (mi) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alaska Highway Alaska Highway The Alaska Highway was constructed during World War II for the purpose of connecting the contiguous U.S. to Alaska through Canada. It begins at the junction with several Canadian highways in Dawson Creek, British Columbia and runs to Delta Junction, Alaska, via Whitehorse, Yukon... |
1 | 1 | Towards Fort Nelson, BC | Towards Tok, AK | 957.15 | 594.75 |
| 2 | 5 | Towards Skagway, AK | Southeast of Whitehorse (Hwy 1) | 133.7 | 83.1 | |
| 2 | 2, 3 | North of Whitehorse (Hwy 1) | Dawson City (Hwy 9) | 524 | 326 | |
| Haines Road | 3 | 4 | Towards Haines, AK | Haines Junction (Hwy 37) | 175.0 | 108.7 |
| 4 | 9 | Watson Lake (Hwy 1) | Carmacks (Hwy 2) | 583 | 362 | |
| Dempster Highway Dempster Highway The Dempster Highway, also referred to as Yukon Highway 5 and Northwest Territories Highway 8, is a highway that connects the Klondike Highway in Yukon, Canada to Inuvik, Northwest Territories on the Mackenzie River delta... |
5 | 11 | Flat Creek (Hwy 2) | Towards Fort McPherson, NT | 465 | 289 |
| 6 | 8 | Johnson's Crossing (Hwy 6) | Ross River (Hwy 4) | 219.1 | 136.1 | |
| 6 | 8 | Ross River (Hwy 4) | Macmillan Pass, NT | 234.7 | 145.8 | |
| Atlin Road Atlin Road The Atlin Road is a road in British Columbia and Yukon, Canada. It is designated as Highway 7 in Yukon, and has no official highway number in British Columbia.... |
7 | 7 | Jake's Corner (Hwy 8) | Towards Atlin, BC | 42.4 | 26.3 |
| Tagish Road Tagish Road The Tagish Road is a 33-mile road, now hard surfaced, that links Jake's Corner on the Alaska Highway with Carcross, Yukon on the Klondike Highway. One mile from Jake's Corner is the terminus of the Atlin Road... |
8 | 6 | Jake's Corner (Hwy 1) | Carcross (Hwy 2) | 54 | 34 |
| Top of the World Highway Top of the World Highway The Top of the World Highway is a long highway, beginning at a junction with the Taylor Highway near Jack Wade, Alaska traveling east to its terminus at the ferry terminal in West Dawson, on the western banks of the Yukon River. The highway has been in existence since at least 1955 and is only... |
9 | 3 | Dawson City (Hwy 2) | Towards Chicken, AK | 105 | 65 |
| Nahanni Range Road Nahanni Range Road The Nahanni Range Road was completed in the early 1960s from Watson Lake, Yukon along the present alignment of the Robert Campbell Highway to Cantung Junction, thence along the Highway 10 route, across the border into the Northwest Territories to the privately-owned mining town known, confusingly,... |
10 | 10 | North of Watson Lake (Hwy 4) | Towards Tungsten, NT | 134 | 83 |
| Silver Trail Silver Trail The Silver Trail connects the communities of Mayo, Elsa and Keno City with the Klondike Highway at Stewart Crossing, where that highway crosses the Stewart River.... |
11 | 2 | Stewart Crossing (Hwy 2) | Keno City | 110 | 68 |
| Takhini Hot Springs Road Yukon roads, miscellaneous In addition to numbered highways, the Yukon has several other roads that are maintained by the territorial government.The Aishihik Road is an 84 mile road from the Alaska Highway at Canyon Creek to the former airfield of Aishihik at the north end of Aishihik Lake. The airfield was part of the... |
14 | North of Whitehorse (Hwy 2) | Takhini Hot Springs | 9.2 | 5.7 | |
| Mitchell Road Yukon roads, miscellaneous In addition to numbered highways, the Yukon has several other roads that are maintained by the territorial government.The Aishihik Road is an 84 mile road from the Alaska Highway at Canyon Creek to the former airfield of Aishihik at the north end of Aishihik Lake. The airfield was part of the... |
15 | South of Faro (Hwy 4) | Faro | 10.8 | 6.7 | |
| Cassiar Highway | 37 | West of Watson Lake (Hwy 1) | Towards Cassiar, BC | 3.4 | 2.1 |