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Tagish Road
Yukon Highway 8
Route information
Maintained by Department of Highways and Public Works
Length
54 km (34 mi)
Major junctions
West end
Hwy 2 in Carcross
Major intersections
Hwy 7 near Jakes Corner
East end
Hwy 1 in Jakes Corner
Location
Country
Canada
Province
Yukon
Highway system
Territorial highways in Yukon
Miscellaneous
← Hwy 7
→ Hwy 9
The Tagish Road (also known as Yukon Highway 8) is a 33-mile (53-kilometre) road, now hard surfaced, that links Jakes Corner on the Alaska Highway with Carcross, Yukon on the Klondike Highway.[1] One mile (1.6 km) from Jakes Corner is the terminus of the Atlin Road. The small community of Tagish is located 12 miles (19 km) from Jakes Corner.
Until the Alaska Highway was completed in 1943 along Marsh Lake, the Tagish Road was a vital segment of the original Alaska Highway route opened in the fall of 1942.[1] For many years, a long wooden bridge was a vital link over the Tagish River, but a concrete bridge replaced it. Rerouting and realignment of the first 12 miles (19 km) was completed in June, 2005.
^ ab"An Explorer's Guide to the Tagish Road, Yukon Highway 8". ExploreNorth. 2013-03-10. Retrieved 2023-07-02.
The TagishRoad (also known as Yukon Highway 8) is a 33-mile (53-kilometre) road, now hard surfaced, that links Jakes Corner on the Alaska Highway with...
Carcross/Tagish First Nation. It is 74 km (46 mi) south-southeast by the Alaska Highway and the Klondike Highway from Whitehorse. The south end of the Tagish Road...
part of the Canadian National Highway System. Canada portal Roads portal List of Yukon roads Highways Regulation, Y.O.I.C. 2002/174 Yukon Highways and Public...
opened the next year. As Yukon Highway 5, it formed a loop road with Highway 6, the TagishRoad (now numbered as 8). It was renumbered as Highway 2 in 1978...
went northwest to Hazelton, along the Stikine River, by Atlin, Teslin and Tagish Lakes, and from Whitehorse, Yukon, to Fairbanks, Alaska, via the Tanana...
a spot on the road, at historical mile 866 of the Alaska Highway, at the junction with connections to the TagishRoad and the Atlin Road. There are a small...
consequently English) name for present-day Tagish Lake is Tagish because the lake provided access to the Tagish people. Tagish Lake extends between Klondike Highway...
in 1949, connecting the village of Atlin, British Columbia, with the TagishRoad just one mile west of the Alaska Highway at historic mile 866 (Jakes...
the Yukon River system. The larger lakes include Teslin Lake, Atlin Lake, Tagish Lake, Marsh Lake, Lake Laberge, Kusawa Lake and Kluane Lake. Bennett Lake...
Inhabited by six principal tribes: the Gwichʼin, the Hän, the Kaska Dena, the Tagish, the Northern and Southern Tutchone, and the Tlingit (Teslin),: 5 there...
continued to extended the road by twenty-three miles and on 4 June they reached Tagish. From Tagish the 93rd further extended the road by thirty-three miles...
777. ISBN 0-12-088253-1. The famous Carcross Desert, near Bennett and Tagish lakes, [...] is a striking example of a rain shadow in the region. "Carcross...
of Albert Sperry Kerry Sr. It was abandoned after it struck a rock near Tagish, which is about 50 kilometres south of Lake Laberge. Dr. Sugden used its...
Cocktail". Along the way, they meet a bunch of characters in Whitehorse, Tagish, and Dawson and uncover a hand-carved bear statue, a woolly mammoth tusk...
with Arabic and English. French is used on Lebanese pound banknotes, on road signs, on Lebanese license plates, and on official buildings (alongside Arabic)...
(Taghum is six miles from Nelson) Tagish Lake, Tagish Highland – "fish trap" or "it (spring ice) is breaking up" in the Tagish language Tahltan, Tahltan River...
an American prospector named George Carmack and two Tagish men, Skookum Jim (Keish), and Tagish Charlie (K̲áa Goox̱) were travelling south of the Klondike...
The discovery of gold in the Klondike in August 1896, by Skookum Jim, Tagish Charlie, and George Washington Carmack, set off a major change in the historical...
400 speakers (Poser 2003) Tahltan: approximately 35 speakers (Poser 2003) Tagish: no fluent speakers as of 2008 Tahltan, British Columbia Tahltan Bear Dog...
Teslin Lake, Atlin Lake, Tagish Lake, Marsh Lake, Lake Laberge, and Kluane Lake. There is access to the lake via an unpaved road that branches from the...
Atlin Lake. Atlin Lake flows into Tagish Lake (via the Atlin River). Tagish Lake flows into Marsh Lake (via the Tagish River). The foot of Marsh Lake is...
scattered throughout. The art park was curated by Candice Hopkins of Carcross/Tagish First Nation, a well known artist who has worked as a curator at the National...
Global Information
Hwy 2 in Carcross
Hwy 7 near Jakes Corner
Hwy 1 in Jakes Corner
