2007 Milepost Now Available

For nearly 60 years, the Milepost has been known as "the Bible of North Country travel." And well it should. It documents, in a mile-by-mile format, everything you'll find along the Alaska Highway, all of the roads in Alaska and many of the roads in northwestern Canada.

Along with the roads, are ferry schedules, write-ups on the larger towns encountered on the trip, and, as always, hundreds of color photos.

Although I've written my own Alaska Highway guidebook in recent years, I still purchase and use a Milepost regularly, simply because of the incredible detail of its information and from a slight case of nostalgia since I used to work for the company that produced the book some 20 years ago. Many of my photographs have appeared in its pages in years gone by.

The first Milepost I purchased in 1972 was about the size of a Reader's Digest magazine--no more than a couple hundred small pages with some ads, a few pictures (mostly black-and-white in those days), and the mile-by-mile description of the roads, and it fit in the glove compartment. Today the book measures 8.5 x 11 inches, probably weighs about five pounds, has more than 500 pages, and likely will have to ride on the dashboard or the seat alongside you. Part of that is due to the growth of northern road systems, part of it is due to the growing number of businesses along the route buying advertising, and part of it is an effort to provide even more information to highway travelers.

This year's Milepost has just been released and it is available through the RVbookstore.com. The book includes a fold-out map of the northwestern Canada and Alaska road systems. If you're headed for Alaska or just driving around Alaska, this is a good book to keep handy.