We spent one week travelling Dempster and the Inuvik-Tuktoyaktuk Highways.

Together those roads cover 540 miles to the Artic Ocean. The round trip is a little short of 1,200 miles crossing across Yukon and the Northwest Territories.

Both are mostly unpaved with a mix of gravel sections, dirt sections and some sections covered with calcium chloride.

It is a stressful drive filled with potholes, washboards, freeze weaves and other difficulties. Finding the proper groove and speed over the washboards is the most challenging part. Going too slow is terrible, going faster helps but the extra speed makes it difficult sometimes to avoid potholes and specially the freeze weaves.

The first section was Dempster Highway that starts a few miles south of Dawson city to Inuvik.

We started late in the afternoon on our first day and camped just before Tombstone Provincial Park

Next morning we travelled to the Artic Circle sign and sopped for the night at a nearby area with great views of the landscape.

On our third day we reached the beautiful area pn the border between Yukon and the Northwest Territories

We camped at Gwich’In territorial park