Dalton highway deaths

Border crossing between Canada and the United States

The Dalton Cache–Pleasant Camp Border Crossing connects the towns of Haines, Alaska and Haines Junction, Yukon on the Canada–United States border.

Alaska Route 7 on the American side joins Yukon Highway 3 on the Canadian side as part of the Haines Highway.

Route

In 1890, Jack Dalton of Skagway improved an historic trail to the interior of Alaska and on to the contiguous United States established by the Chilikat tribe of the Indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast.

The route, formerly known as the Dalton Trail, had been used for centuries by the indigenous people of the region and was heavily used during the Klondike Gold Rush. Dalton Cache was an inn and trading post at the border. In 2009, Haines Highway was declared a National Scenic Byway.^[1][2]

In response to the goldrush, the North-West Mounted Police (NWMP) established an inspection stat