Category: Diddy Dave – 1st Leg

Deadhorse

Deadhorse is an unincorporated community in North Slope Borough, Alaska, United States, along the North Slope near the Arctic Ocean. The town consists mainly of facilities for the workers and companies that operate at the nearby Prudhoe Bay oil fields. Deadhorse is accessible via the Dalton Highway from Fairbanks, 495 mi (797 km) south, or Deadhorse Airport. Limited accommodations are also available…

Prudhoe Bay

Prudhoe Bay or Sagavanirktok is a census-designated place (CDP) located in North Slope Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. As of the 2010 census, the population of the CDP was 2,174 people; however, at any given time several thousand transient workers support the Prudhoe Bay oil field. The airport, lodging, and general store are located at Deadhorse;…

Cold Foot

Coldfoot is a census-designated place (CDP) in Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area in the U.S. state of Alaska. The population was 10 at the 2010 census. Coldfoot primarily serves as a truck stop on the Dalton Highway from Fairbanks to Prudhoe Bay. North of Coldfoot, there are no services for 240 miles (400 km), until Deadhorse. It has a restaurant and a small number of…

Fairbanks – Heading North

Fairbanks is a home rule city in the Fairbanks North Star Borough in the U.S. state of Alaska. Fairbanks is the largest city in the Interior region of Alaska, and second largest in the state, after Anchorage. It is the principal city of the Fairbanks, Alaska. According to an estimate of 2011 the population of the city…

Chicken

Diddy Daves report from 18/07/2009 “Saturday 18th july 4pm approx…..in a Alaska at a place called Chicken.Just a short update, I left Inuvik on Thursday and started to head back down the Dempster Highway its about 900km to the T Junction at the bottom. I…

Inuvik

Inuvik is a town in the Northwest Territories of Canada and is the administrative centre for the Inuvik Region. The population as of the 2006 Census was 3,484, but the two previous census counts show wide fluctuations due to economic conditions: 2,894 in 2001 and 3,296 in 1996. In 2009 the Government of the Northwest Territories reported that…

Dawson City

The Town of the City of Dawson or Dawson City is a town in the Yukon, Canada. The population was 1,319 at the 2011 census. The area draws some 60,000 visitors each year. The locals generally refer to it simply as ‘Dawson’, but the tourist industry generally refers to it as ‘Dawson City’ (partly to…

Fort Nelson

Fort Nelson is a community in northeast British Columbia, Canada within the Northern Rockies Regional Municipality(NRRM). It held town status prior to February 6, 2009 when it amalgamated with the former Northern Rockies Regional District to form the NRRM, becoming its administrative centre. The NRRM is the first regional municipality in the…

Fort St John

Fort St. John is a city in northeastern British Columbia, Canada. A member municipality of the Peace River Regional District, the city covers an area of about 22 km2 (8.5 sq mi) with 18,609 residents (2011 census). It is one of the largest cities along the Alaska Highway. Originally established in 1794, as a trading post,…