South Klondike Highway

Klondike Highway
Alaska Route 98 Yukon Highway 2
Route information
Maintained by Alaska DOT&PF, Yukon DOH&PW
Length:	438 mi (705 km) AK-98: 28.9 mi (47.3 km) YT-2: 409.1 mi (657.7 km)
Major junctions
South end:	Alaska Marine Highway in Skagway, AK
	Hwy 8 in Carcross, YT Hwy 1 (Alaska Highway) in Carcross Cutoff, YT and Whitehorse, YT Hwy 4 in Carmacks, YT Hwy 11 in Steward Crossing, YT Hwy 5 in near Dawson City, YT
North end:	To Hwy 9 at the Dawson City Ferry Landing in Dawson City, YT
Highway system
Alaska Routes Interstate U.S. Scenic Byways Territorial highways in Yukon Miscellaneous ← AK-11 AK-1 → ← Hwy 1 Hwy 3 →

The Klondike Highway is a highway that links the Alaskan coastal town of Skagway to Yukon's Dawson City. Its route somewhat parallels the route used by prospectors in the 1898 Klondike Gold Rush.

In Yukon, the Klondike Highway is marked as Yukon Highway 2. In Alaska, the Highway is marked as Alaska Route 98 (as in "route of 1898"). Until 1978, the unopened section between the Yukon–BC border and Carcross had no official highway number, while the section north of Carcross to the Alaska Highway was Highway 5, and the section from Stewart Crossing to Dawson was Highway 3. The BC section is now maintained by the Yukon government as a natural extension of Highway 2.

The Klondike Highway winds in the state of Alaska for 24 km (15 miles), up through the White Pass in the Coast Mountains where it crosses the Canada–US border to British Columbia (BC) for 56 km (35 miles), then enters Yukon where it reaches the Alaska Highway near Whitehorse and shares a short section with that highway until north of Whitehorse, where it diverges once more to Dawson City. The highway is 712 km (442 miles) long.

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