Kiskatonaw Bridge

Today we took a seventeen mile trip north of Dawson Creek to see the original bridge that was built on the Alaska Highway. This is the only original bridge still in use today. It is 531 feet long and about 200 hundred feet above the Kiskatonaw River. It was built from British Columbia Spruce timbers that were cut about 200 miles from the building site and brought in by truck. The bridge has a nine degree curve which makes it an engineering marvel. Remember it was built long before they had the bridge building equipment they now have.

We also went to the Walter Wright Pioneer Village which depicts Dawson Creek before the Alaska Highway construction period. It takes you back to the time when Dawson Creek was on the edge of the frontier. These houses and buildings were relocated from their original locations to the Pioneer Village. Great care was taken to move these building without damaging them.