https://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=Dalton_Highway&feed=atom&action=historyDalton Highway - Revision history2024-03-29T08:48:24ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.32.3https://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=Dalton_Highway&diff=69820&oldid=prevGuaka at 11:42, 27 May 20132013-05-27T11:42:55Z<p></p>
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</table>Guakahttps://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=Dalton_Highway&diff=61862&oldid=prevAxiomaticdrifting at 22:10, 16 June 20122012-06-16T22:10:12Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>There isn't much in the way of developments on the road, so your rides, though likely infrequent, will be long and far. The best place to get started from the Fairbanks area is probably the '''Hilltop Cafe''' north of Fairbanks... [[User:Axiomaticdrifting|Axiomaticdrifting]] swears there used to be a public bus that ran there from Fairbanks, but he can't find any info about it right now. The Hilltop is frequented by most of the truckers that work the highway back and forth so try and get a ride at least to Coldfoot from here. Coldfoot is a good place to explore the brooks range and still have access to the road traffic, it is also officially within the Arctic. It really doesn't matter where you get a ride to, though, since it's a two way road with pretty much nowhere else to go but north or south... so, really take what you can get, and you'll eventually get where you're going. Any rooms you might find along the way (at Yukon, Coldfoot, Wiseman, and Prudhoe) will be ridiculously expensive ($150 and up), and won't be worth the money, so come prepared to camp. At that, most of the land surrounding the road, with the exception of the land immediately around the oil pipeline, is public, so camp wherever you want unless it's obviously owned by someone. </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>There isn't much in the way of developments on the road, so your rides, though likely infrequent, will be long and far. The best place to get started from the Fairbanks area is probably the '''Hilltop Cafe''' north of Fairbanks... [[User:Axiomaticdrifting|Axiomaticdrifting]] swears there used to be a public bus that ran there from Fairbanks, but he can't find any info about it right now. The Hilltop is frequented by most of the truckers that work the highway back and forth so try and get a ride at least to Coldfoot from here. Coldfoot is a good place to explore the brooks range and still have access to the road traffic, it is also officially within the Arctic. It really doesn't matter where you get a ride to, though, since it's a two way road with pretty much nowhere else to go but north or south... so, really take what you can get, and you'll eventually get where you're going. Any rooms you might find along the way (at Yukon, Coldfoot, Wiseman, and Prudhoe) will be ridiculously expensive ($150 and up), and won't be worth the money, so come prepared to camp. At that, most of the land surrounding the road, with the exception of the land immediately around the oil pipeline, is public, so camp wherever you want unless it's obviously owned by someone. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[User:Panamericana|Panamericana]], a male/female couple hitching the Dalton in June 2012, claims that trucks and other commercial or state vehicles WILL NOT pick you up on the Highway. It's against their insurance and company policies, and though many are very apologetic and may give you food/water/bug spray/sympathy, you're not going to get commercial lifts. For this reason we would disagree with the Hilltop Cafe as a place to start, but we hitched a ride within half an hour from the road outside the nearby Weigh Station. (This is a few miles from Fairbanks but from town you can walk out to where the road to Fox starts which is the one you want, followed by the Elliot Highway to get you to the start of the Dalton.) However, [[User:Axiomaticdrifting|Axiomaticdrifting]] has successfully hitched rides on the Dalton from commercial vehicles on multiple occasion. </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>[[User:Panamericana|Panamericana]], a male/female couple hitching the Dalton in June 2012, claims that trucks and other commercial or state vehicles WILL NOT pick you up on the Highway. It's against their insurance and company policies, and though many are very apologetic and may give you food/water/bug spray/sympathy, you're not going to get commercial lifts. For this reason we would disagree with the Hilltop Cafe as a place to start, but we hitched a ride within half an hour from the road outside the nearby Weigh Station. (This is a few miles from Fairbanks but from town you can walk out to where the road to Fox starts which is the one you want, followed by the Elliot Highway to get you to the start of the Dalton.) However, [[User:Axiomaticdrifting|Axiomaticdrifting]] has successfully hitched rides on the Dalton from commercial vehicles on multiple occasion. </div></td></tr>
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</table>Axiomaticdriftinghttps://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=Dalton_Highway&diff=61859&oldid=prevAxiomaticdrifting at 21:37, 16 June 20122012-06-16T21:37:56Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Here is some updated info and thoughts from </del>a male/female couple hitching the Dalton in June 2012<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">. Most important thing to bear in mind is </del>that trucks and other commercial or state vehicles WILL NOT pick you up on the Highway. It's against their insurance and company policies, and though many are very apologetic and may give you food/water/bug spray/sympathy, you're not going to get commercial lifts. For this reason we would disagree with the Hilltop Cafe as a place to start, but we hitched a ride within half an hour from the road outside the nearby Weigh Station. (This is a few miles from Fairbanks but from town you can walk out to where the road to Fox starts which is the one you want, followed by the Elliot Highway to get you to the start of the Dalton.)</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[User:Panamericana|Panamericana]], </ins>a male/female couple hitching the Dalton in June 2012<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, claims </ins>that trucks and other commercial or state vehicles WILL NOT pick you up on the Highway. It's against their insurance and company policies, and though many are very apologetic and may give you food/water/bug spray/sympathy, you're not going to get commercial lifts. For this reason we would disagree with the Hilltop Cafe as a place to start, but we hitched a ride within half an hour from the road outside the nearby Weigh Station. (This is a few miles from Fairbanks but from town you can walk out to where the road to Fox starts which is the one you want, followed by the Elliot Highway to get you to the start of the Dalton.) <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">However, [[User:Axiomaticdrifting|Axiomaticdrifting]] has successfully hitched rides on the Dalton from commercial vehicles on multiple occasion. </ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Lots of tourists go to the Arctic Circle (mile post 115) so it seems pretty easy to get there, but after that you're looking for some very good luck.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Lots of tourists go to the Arctic Circle (mile post 115) so it seems pretty easy to get there, but after that you're looking for some very good luck.</div></td></tr>
</table>Axiomaticdriftinghttps://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=Dalton_Highway&diff=61828&oldid=prevPanamericana at 04:51, 15 June 20122012-06-15T04:51:01Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>There isn't much in the way of developments on the road, so your rides, though likely infrequent, will be long and far. The best place to get started from the Fairbanks area is probably the '''Hilltop Cafe''' north of Fairbanks... [[User:Axiomaticdrifting|Axiomaticdrifting]] swears there used to be a public bus that ran there from Fairbanks, but he can't find any info about it right now. The Hilltop is frequented by most of the truckers that work the highway back and forth so try and get a ride at least to Coldfoot from here. Coldfoot is a good place to explore the brooks range and still have access to the road traffic, it is also officially within the Arctic. It really doesn't matter where you get a ride to, though, since it's a two way road with pretty much nowhere else to go but north or south... so, really take what you can get, and you'll eventually get where you're going. Any rooms you might find along the way (at Yukon, Coldfoot, Wiseman, and Prudhoe) will be ridiculously expensive ($150 and up), and won't be worth the money, so come prepared to camp. At that, most of the land surrounding the road, with the exception of the land immediately around the oil pipeline, is public, so camp wherever you want unless it's obviously owned by someone. </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>There isn't much in the way of developments on the road, so your rides, though likely infrequent, will be long and far. The best place to get started from the Fairbanks area is probably the '''Hilltop Cafe''' north of Fairbanks... [[User:Axiomaticdrifting|Axiomaticdrifting]] swears there used to be a public bus that ran there from Fairbanks, but he can't find any info about it right now. The Hilltop is frequented by most of the truckers that work the highway back and forth so try and get a ride at least to Coldfoot from here. Coldfoot is a good place to explore the brooks range and still have access to the road traffic, it is also officially within the Arctic. It really doesn't matter where you get a ride to, though, since it's a two way road with pretty much nowhere else to go but north or south... so, really take what you can get, and you'll eventually get where you're going. Any rooms you might find along the way (at Yukon, Coldfoot, Wiseman, and Prudhoe) will be ridiculously expensive ($150 and up), and won't be worth the money, so come prepared to camp. At that, most of the land surrounding the road, with the exception of the land immediately around the oil pipeline, is public, so camp wherever you want unless it's obviously owned by someone. </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Good destinations to aim for on your first day from Fairbanks would be '''The Yukon River Crossing''', '''Coldfoot''', '''Wiseman''', or any '''Pump Station''' along the pipeline... all these places will see all traffic on the road, will be safe for drivers to stop, and you'll likely be able to actually converse with drivers in person there. From the aforementioned locales, it's up to you whether you want to go all the way to Prudhoe or not. I would advise against going there unless you're willing to cough up the money for a room or are willing to turn around and try to hitchhike back south on the same day (again, camping can be especially dangerous in Prudhoe with the risk of Polar Bears, but it almost certainly has been done before... so... yeah)</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Good destinations to aim for on your first day from Fairbanks would be '''The Yukon River Crossing''', '''Coldfoot''', '''Wiseman''', or any '''Pump Station''' along the pipeline... all these places will see all traffic on the road, will be safe for drivers to stop, and you'll likely be able to actually converse with drivers in person there. From the aforementioned locales, it's up to you whether you want to go all the way to Prudhoe or not. I would advise against going there unless you're willing to cough up the money for a room or are willing to turn around and try to hitchhike back south on the same day (again, camping can be especially dangerous in Prudhoe with the risk of Polar Bears, but it almost certainly has been done before... so... yeah)</div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Here is some updated info and thoughts from a male/female couple hitching the Dalton in June 2012. Most important thing to bear in mind is that trucks and other commercial or state vehicles WILL NOT pick you up on the Highway. It's against their insurance and company policies, and though many are very apologetic and may give you food/water/bug spray/sympathy, you're not going to get commercial lifts. For this reason we would disagree with the Hilltop Cafe as a place to start, but we hitched a ride within half an hour from the road outside the nearby Weigh Station. (This is a few miles from Fairbanks but from town you can walk out to where the road to Fox starts which is the one you want, followed by the Elliot Highway to get you to the start of the Dalton.)</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Lots of tourists go to the Arctic Circle (mile post 115) so it seems pretty easy to get there, but after that you're looking for some very good luck.</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Unless you are planning to pay $45 each for a short trip out to the Arctic Ocean (no individuals allowed. There's big fences), there really is nothing in Deadhorse (the oil camp at Prudhoe Bay.) We'd also add to places being expensive that they're extremely unfriendly, and we weren't even allowed to warm up in the hotel unless we bought expensive food, nor could we share one plate of breakfast between two.</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"></ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Camping equipment is indeed essential, as is plenty supplies and anti-bug gear. On the way down we got stuck for two days (we were still above the Arctic Circle), but as already said when someone does eventually pick you up, they'll be going your way!</ins></div></td></tr>
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</table>Panamericanahttps://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=Dalton_Highway&diff=58217&oldid=prevPrino at 07:37, 2 January 20122012-01-02T07:37:15Z<p></p>
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</table>Prinohttps://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=Dalton_Highway&diff=58216&oldid=prevPrino at 07:36, 2 January 20122012-01-02T07:36:31Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>There isn't much in the way of developments on the road, so your rides, though likely infrequent, will be long and far. The best place to get started from the Fairbanks area is probably the '''Hilltop Cafe''' north of Fairbanks... [[User:Axiomaticdrifting]] swears there used to be a public bus that ran there from Fairbanks, but he can't find any info about it right now. The Hilltop is frequented by most of the truckers that work the highway back and forth so try and get a ride at least to Coldfoot from here. Coldfoot is a good place to explore the brooks range and still have access to the road traffic, it is also officially within the Arctic. It really doesn't matter where you get a ride to, though, since it's a two way road with pretty much nowhere else to go but north or south... so, really take what you can get, and you'll eventually get where you're going. Any rooms you might find along the way (at Yukon, Coldfoot, Wiseman, and Prudhoe) will be ridiculously expensive ($150 and up), and won't be worth the money, so come prepared to camp. At that, most of the land surrounding the road, with the exception of the land immediately around the oil pipeline, is public, so camp wherever you want unless it's obviously owned by someone. </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>There isn't much in the way of developments on the road, so your rides, though likely infrequent, will be long and far. The best place to get started from the Fairbanks area is probably the '''Hilltop Cafe''' north of Fairbanks... [[User:<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Axiomaticdrifting|</ins>Axiomaticdrifting]] swears there used to be a public bus that ran there from Fairbanks, but he can't find any info about it right now. The Hilltop is frequented by most of the truckers that work the highway back and forth so try and get a ride at least to Coldfoot from here. Coldfoot is a good place to explore the brooks range and still have access to the road traffic, it is also officially within the Arctic. It really doesn't matter where you get a ride to, though, since it's a two way road with pretty much nowhere else to go but north or south... so, really take what you can get, and you'll eventually get where you're going. Any rooms you might find along the way (at Yukon, Coldfoot, Wiseman, and Prudhoe) will be ridiculously expensive ($150 and up), and won't be worth the money, so come prepared to camp. At that, most of the land surrounding the road, with the exception of the land immediately around the oil pipeline, is public, so camp wherever you want unless it's obviously owned by someone. </div></td></tr>
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</table>Prinohttps://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=Dalton_Highway&diff=58215&oldid=prevPrino at 07:34, 2 January 20122012-01-02T07:34:37Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>As was stated, the Dalton Highway is essentially a wilderness highway, half of which is within the Arctic Circle, so some precautions must be taken that might otherwise not be considered. First and foremost '''<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">DO NOT ATTEMPT TO HITCHHIKE THE DALTON IN WINTER</del>'''... this may seem obvious to most people, but it should be laid out clearly. Temperatures easily drop to -40 (F and C, since that's the point on the scale that their exactly equal), and this is compounded by snow, extreme <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">windchills</del>, and little to no sun-light. In fact, hitchhiking should only be attempted on the Dalton from mid-May to mid-Sept (with late May, early June, and Mid August probably being the best and most comfortable times)... keep in mind, it literally never gets dark for most of the summer on most of the highway.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>As was stated, the Dalton Highway is essentially a wilderness highway, half of which is within the Arctic Circle, so some precautions must be taken that might otherwise not be considered. First and foremost '''<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">do not attempt to hitchhike the Dalton in the winter</ins>'''... this may seem obvious to most people, but it should be laid out clearly. Temperatures easily drop to -40 (F and C, since that's the point on the scale that their exactly equal), and this is compounded by snow, extreme <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">windchill</ins>, and little to no sun-light. In fact, hitchhiking should only be attempted on the Dalton from mid-May to mid-Sept (with late May, early June, and Mid August probably being the best and most comfortable times)... keep in mind, it literally never gets dark for most of the summer on most of the highway.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>There isn't much in the way of developments on the road, so your rides, though likely infrequent, will be long and far. The best place to get started from the Fairbanks area is probably the '''Hilltop Cafe''' north of Fairbanks... <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">I swear </del>there used to be a public bus that ran there from Fairbanks, but <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">I </del>can't find any info about it right now. The Hilltop is frequented by most of the truckers that work the highway back and forth so try and get a ride at least to Coldfoot from here. Coldfoot is a good place to explore the brooks range and still have access to the road traffic, it is also officially within the Arctic. It really doesn't matter where you get a ride to, though, since it's a two way road with pretty much nowhere else to go but north or south... so, really take what you can get, and you'll eventually get where you're going. Any rooms you might find along the way (at Yukon, Coldfoot, Wiseman, and Prudhoe) will be ridiculously expensive ($150 and up), and won't be worth the money, so come prepared to camp. At that, most of the land surrounding the road, with the exception of the land immediately around the oil pipeline, is public, so camp <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">whereever </del>you want unless it's obviously owned by someone. </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>There isn't much in the way of developments on the road, so your rides, though likely infrequent, will be long and far. The best place to get started from the Fairbanks area is probably the '''Hilltop Cafe''' north of Fairbanks... <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">[[User:Axiomaticdrifting]] swears </ins>there used to be a public bus that ran there from Fairbanks, but <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">he </ins>can't find any info about it right now. The Hilltop is frequented by most of the truckers that work the highway back and forth so try and get a ride at least to Coldfoot from here. Coldfoot is a good place to explore the brooks range and still have access to the road traffic, it is also officially within the Arctic. It really doesn't matter where you get a ride to, though, since it's a two way road with pretty much nowhere else to go but north or south... so, really take what you can get, and you'll eventually get where you're going. Any rooms you might find along the way (at Yukon, Coldfoot, Wiseman, and Prudhoe) will be ridiculously expensive ($150 and up), and won't be worth the money, so come prepared to camp. At that, most of the land surrounding the road, with the exception of the land immediately around the oil pipeline, is public, so camp <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">wherever </ins>you want unless it's obviously owned by someone. </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Good destinations to aim for on your first day from Fairbanks would be '''The Yukon River Crossing''', '''Coldfoot''', '''Wiseman''', or any '''Pump Station''' along the pipeline... all these places will see all traffic on the road, will be safe for drivers to stop, and you'll likely be able to actually converse with drivers in person there. From the aforementioned locales, it's up to you whether you want to go all the way to Prudhoe or not. I would advise against going there unless you're willing to cough up the money for a room or are willing to turn around and try to hitchhike back south on the same day (again, camping can be especially dangerous in Prudhoe with the risk of Polar Bears, but it almost certainly has been done before... so... yeah)</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Good destinations to aim for on your first day from Fairbanks would be '''The Yukon River Crossing''', '''Coldfoot''', '''Wiseman''', or any '''Pump Station''' along the pipeline... all these places will see all traffic on the road, will be safe for drivers to stop, and you'll likely be able to actually converse with drivers in person there. From the aforementioned locales, it's up to you whether you want to go all the way to Prudhoe or not. I would advise against going there unless you're willing to cough up the money for a room or are willing to turn around and try to hitchhike back south on the same day (again, camping can be especially dangerous in Prudhoe with the risk of Polar Bears, but it almost certainly has been done before... so... yeah)</div></td></tr>
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</table>Prinohttps://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=Dalton_Highway&diff=58213&oldid=prevCRCulver at 06:15, 2 January 20122012-01-02T06:15:49Z<p></p>
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</table>CRCulverhttps://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=Dalton_Highway&diff=58208&oldid=prevAxiomaticdrifting at 02:53, 2 January 20122012-01-02T02:53:20Z<p></p>
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</table>Axiomaticdriftinghttps://hitchwiki.org/en/index.php?title=Dalton_Highway&diff=58207&oldid=prevAxiomaticdrifting at 02:51, 2 January 20122012-01-02T02:51:20Z<p></p>
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