Drive North Planner
Plan the drive north to Alaska — pick a starting point, a date and a daily mileage, and get one honest day at a time.
The whole trip at a glance — scroll the table sideways for all columns.
How this works — and what it isn't
You pick a daily mileage; the planner packs real stops into days and always lands the overnight on a town or lodge stop with services — never a random point on the road. Where the highway is sparse, a day may run long; those days are flagged rather than hidden.
Starting points are the main US border crossings people actually drive north from; each approach chain is the standard drive to Dawson Creek, Mile 0 of the Alaska Highway. Once you're on the Alaska Highway, each overnight also shows its traditional Alcan mile marker alongside the trip miles from your start.
Daylight is computed with the same NOAA solar math as the rest of Alaska Daylight. Arrival and "light left" are rough estimates: the start time and average speed you set above, with no stops. Real days have fuel stops, border crossings and bison.
Weather is climate, not forecast — typical highs, lows and precipitation for that stop and month, averaged from 2015–2024 Open-Meteo archive data. Check a real forecast before you roll. Mileages are planning figures compiled from public sources; services can be seasonal, especially outside May–September — confirm fuel and camping before relying on a stop.
Stop details — campgrounds and sani-dumps, hospitals and health centres, border ports, pass elevations and the "worth the stop" lines — were researched from official public sources in October 2026 and are credited at the bottom of this page, next to a plain planning note. Details change; the official links on each day are the ones to trust.
A test tool from Alaska Daylight. No accounts, nothing saved — the plan lives in this page.