Highway in Yukon Territory and Northwest Territories, Canada
Dempster Highway
Yukon Highway 5 Northwest Territories Highway 8
Route information
Maintained by Department of Highways and Public Works
Length
737.5 km (458.3 mi)
YT-5: 465 km (289 mi) NWT-8: 271 km (168 mi)
Major junctions
South end
Hwy 2 (Klondike Highway) near Dawson City, YT
North end
Highway 10 (Inuvik–Tuktoyaktuk Highway), Inuvik, NT
Location
Country
Canada
Province
Yukon
Highway system
Territorial highways in Yukon
Miscellaneous
Northwest Territories highways
← Hwy 4
→ Hwy 6
← Highway 7
→ Highway 9
The Dempster Highway, also referred to as Yukon Highway 5 and Northwest Territories Highway 8, is a highway in Canada that connects the Klondike Highway in Yukon to Inuvik, Northwest Territories on the Mackenzie River delta. The highway crosses the Peel and the Mackenzie rivers using a combination of seasonal ferry services and ice bridges. Year-round road access from Inuvik to Tuktoyaktuk opened in November 2017, with the completion of the Inuvik–Tuktoyaktuk Highway,[1] creating the first all-weather road route connecting the Canadian road network with the Arctic Ocean.
The highway is named for North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) officer William Dempster, who earned renown for discovering the fate of a lost NWMP patrol in 1911.
^"GCR - News - First ever road to Canada's Arctic coast to open this week". www.globalconstructionreview.com. Retrieved 2017-11-23.
DempsterHighway, also referred to as Yukon Highway 5 and Northwest Territories Highway 8, is a highway in Canada that connects the Klondike Highway in...
Highway (ITH), which is open all year round. The Inuvik to Tuktoyaktuk highway, which connects to Canada's highway system at Inuvik via the Dempster Highway...
Yellowknife Highway branches out from Mackenzie Highway and connects it to Yellowknife. DempsterHighway is the continuation of Klondike Highway. It starts...
and Dawson City in the winter of 1910–11. The DempsterHighway in northern Canada is named for him. Dempster was born in Wales on 21 October 1876. He emigrated...
on the Tuktoyaktuk Winter Road, a 194 km (121 mi) extension of the DempsterHighway between Inuvik and Tuktoyaktuk in Canada's Northwest Territories. As...
Winter conditions on the Dalton Highway (April 2016) Alaska portal U.S. Roads portal List of Alaska Routes DempsterHighway - Only other all-purpose road...
northerly highways in the world at those latitudes. Two nearby, farther north highways are the DempsterHighway (Yukon Route 5) and the Dalton Highway (Alaska...
Winter Road, replaced by the Inuvik–Tuktoyaktuk Highway, which extended the DempsterHighway (Highway 8). The former Tlicho winter road system, replaced...
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Aurora Borealis above Arctic Circle sign along the DempsterHighway in Yukon at 66°33′55″N 136°18′26″W / 66.56528°N 136.30722°W / 66.56528; -136.30722...
continue driving in Canada for this season, moving cargo along the DempsterHighway (Debogorski) and Manitoba's winter roads (Rowland and Yemm). Jessee...
flagpole) DempsterHighway, south of Inuvik, Northwest Territories, named after Inspector Dempster who found "The Lost Patrol" DempsterHighway near the...
Yukon River (top and right) at Dawson City Klondike River crossing DempsterHighway (downstream) Mouth of the Klondike River to the Yukon River at Dawson...
economic studies being done on the extension of the highway north from Wrigley to join the DempsterHighway; the territorial government has completed 34 bridges...
territories in Canada. It is in central Yukon, near the southern end of the DempsterHighway, stretching from the 50.5 to the 115.0 kilometre marker. The park protects...
of these camps with the necessary materials. For example, along the DempsterHighway that stretches across the isolated northern region of Yukon Territory...
The Klondike Highway is a highway that runs from the Alaska Panhandle through the province of British Columbia and the territory of Yukon in Canada, linking...
Tuktoyaktuk Winter Road, an extension of the DempsterHighway, was an ice road on frozen Mackenzie River delta channels and the frozen Arctic Ocean between...
Indigenous language (Gwich’in) was their mother tongue. The DempsterHighway, NWT Highway 8, crosses the Mackenzie River at Tsiigehtchic. During winter...
Highway, the Klondike Highway (between Skagway and Dawson City), the Haines Highway (between Haines, Alaska, and Haines Junction), and the Dempster Highway...
about 20 km south of the Arctic Circle. The community is settled along DempsterHighway, about 410 km (254 mi) north of Dawson City and about 365 km (227 mi)...
highways in the Northwest Territories of Canada. They are divided amongst Arterial Class Highways, of which there are six; Collector Class Highways,...
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The aerodrome's gravel runway is actually a small section of the DempsterHighway, with a pull-off ramp area provided to keep aircraft parked clear of...
north of the Arctic Circle, through the Yukon Territory and along the DempsterHighway in mid-winter to Inuvik in the Northwest Territories where they then...
Arctic Ocean. The land-based trail comes through the Yukon up the DempsterHighway and into the N.W.T., where it continues north through the Mackenzie...