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Taking the Long Way Home From Alaska

On an epic road trip, a family plots a course from Alaska to the Lower 48, passing through some of Canada’s most spectacular scenery. The tally: 2,200 miles, five national parks, numerous hot springs and one excellent reindeer hot dog.

By Elaine Glusac

Elaine Glusac is the Frugal Traveler columnist, focusing on budget-friendly tips and journeys.

Within months of the Pearl Harbor bombing on Dec. 7, 1941, the United States, in cooperation with the Canadian authorities, set out to build a highway from British Columbia to Alaska, then a territory and viewed as vulnerable to attack by Japan. The original 1,685-mile road took more than 10,000 soldiers less than nine months to complete.

An upgraded version opened in 1948 and has been continually resurfaced and rerouted; It now measures just shy of 1,400 miles from Dawson Creek, British Columbia, to Delta Junction in Alaska, according to “ The Milepost ,” a guidebook to the drive.

The highway formed the heart of a family road trip I took last September from Alaska to Idaho, passing through the Yukon, British Columbia and Alberta, in Canada, along the way.

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Relying on Google Maps won’t get you far on this drive, where cellphone service is sparse. In preparation, my son found a 1972 road map of western Canada and eastern Alaska that has remained fairly accurate.

The route, which takes motorists through some of the most stunning landscapes in North America, lends itself to a budget trip. We spent about $300 on fuel for the whole trip in a medium-size S.U.V. We often camped and ate picnic meals, starting in coastal Valdez, Alaska, where we overnighted on a 32-foot powerboat listed on Airbnb ($68 a night) with a great blue heron and a harbor seal as neighbors.

May and September, the start and end of the high-season months for traffic along this route, are also good times to see wildlife that is often pushed to lower elevations by snow.

Lessons in patience

From Valdez, we made our way to Wrangell-St. Elias National Park & Preserve (free), the largest U.S. national park, and then joined the Alaska Highway at Tok , a small town about 90 miles from the Canadian border that plays a large role in servicing sparsely populated eastern Alaska with its grocery stores, gas stations and restaurants.

We planned to drive deep into the Yukon on Day 1, but even with just 10 vehicles ahead at the border checkpoint, it took two hours to reach the lone agent, who asked us a few questions — mostly concerning firearms and hunting — and sent us on our way.

It was the first slowdown of many caused by stretches of unsealed road, construction detours and spots where the blacktop had pitched above frozen ground.

Yukon wilderness

Nearly 600 miles of the Alaska Highway traverse the Yukon.

From the border, the road travels southeast, passing yawning valleys with snaking streams and long glacier-fed lakes en route to Kluane National Park and Reserve , home to 19,551-foot Mount Logan, the highest mountain in Canada, and more than 2,000 glaciers. It, along with neighboring Wrangell-St. Elias and other parks, forms a UNESCO World Heritage site that enshrines the largest ice fields outside of the polar caps.

“This is how the Rockies would have looked years and years ago,” said Fitz McGoey, the visitor experience product development officer for the park, about 80 percent of which is covered by snow and ice.

Losing daylight, we opted for the first campground we could find north of the park. Quiet Lake Creek (20 Canadian dollars, or about $15, a night) offered riverside camping where we made quesadillas over a fire and fell asleep to the sound of a hooting owl while clutching cans of bear spray.

After days of driving and camping, and one excellent reindeer hot dog from a gas station in Haines Junction , we stopped in Whitehorse , the capital of the Yukon and the only major city on the highway, which was on the 52 Places to Go in 2024 list as a destination for northern lights tourism.

Across the 350 forested acres of the nearby Yukon Wildlife Preserve , a three-mile trail linked the habitats of 12 tundra species, including thinhorn sheep, arctic fox and Canadian lynx (admission 19 dollars).

Checking into the Raven Inn (284 dollars), we explored Whitehorse’s walkable downtown and splurged on dinner at Belly of the Bison (bison Bolognese, 34 dollars). Afterward, our waitress directed us to the ’98 Hotel lounge for “a real taste of Whitehorse.”

It was open-mic night in the bar, which was decorated in animal skins and antique rifles, and free mugs of Molson beer arrived whenever someone rang the bell above the bar to buy the house a round.

The M.C. encouraged reluctant talent by reminding the crowd, “There is no tomorrow if you don’t live today.”

Yukon kitsch

For the most part, the Alaska Highway is free of roadside kitsch with one enormously engaging exception: Signpost Forest in Watson Lake, Yukon (free).

Roughly 270 miles southeast of Whitehorse, a forest of poles displays innumerable road signs posted by motorists since 1942 when a homesick American soldier named Carl K. Lindley erected a sign with the mileage to his hometown, Danville, Ill.

Now license plates and tributes constructed of everything from flip-flops to a toilet seat compete with the signage.

“We call it the largest public display of stolen property in North America,” said Chris Irvin, the mayor of Watson Lake, in a phone interview, who estimated there are about a million signs in the forest.

In British Columbia, springs and safaris

In Alaska and the Yukon, we’d spotted bear and moose. But the wildlife in northern British Columbia, which we entered shortly after the Sign Post Forest, felt like a safari.

We saw black bears emerging from the woods and frequently stopped to view caribou grazing or herds of wood bison on the highway shoulder. A family of thinhorn sheep licking salt from the road nearly collided with our vehicle, their hooves skittering on the pavement.

Reassuringly, our next stop, Liard River Hot Springs Provincial Park , offered camping behind an electric bear fence (26 dollars a night). Campers have unlimited access to the springs, reached via a boardwalk — the original was built in 1942 by American forces — over a warm-water swamp and a boreal forest so unusual in nurturing species like orchids that it was originally named Tropical Valley.

With mossy banks, rubble bottoms and temperatures that ranged from about 108 to 126 degrees, the park’s natural pools stayed open around the clock, and we found solitude both at night while stargazing and the next morning in the fog of dawn.

The highway flattens as it nears its origin in Dawson Creek , a British Columbia town of 500 that grew virtually overnight to roughly 10,000 when highway construction began. Black-and-white photos of servicemen working on the road, sitting atop a truck mired in mud and bathing in a river filled the hallways at our hotel, the no-frills George Dawson Inn (174 dollars, including breakfast).

The highway’s much-photographed Mile Zero marker neighbors a former grain elevator that has been restored as the Dawson Creek Art Gallery (free).

The gallery’s back stairway exhibits a collection of photos, letters and tributes called “The Road.” It included this anecdote: When the Indigenous people of Canada’s north questioned the speed of the road’s construction, they were told about Hitler’s plan for world domination, to which one replied, “What’s he want all that land for? He will surely die someday like everyone else.”

Alberta’s parks

From Mile Zero, the most direct route to the Lower 48 crosses into Alberta and transits two marquee attractions of the Canadian Rockies: Jasper National Park and neighboring Banff National Park .

In view of rising mountains, immense river valleys and herds of elk, we drove 280 miles, primarily on Highway 40, to Jasper National Park (22 dollars per family or group). Its main road follows the glacial blue Athabasca River to the town of Jasper, where we checked into HI Jasper hostel (306 dollars for a four-bed private room).

Rising early, we beat the tour buses to the park’s Maligne Canyon to peer into a river-carved chasm, following the flow from a cliff-top trail that descended with the river to rapids and pools.

Connecting Jasper and Banff over roughly 145 miles, the Icefields Parkway offered spectacular views of waterfalls and peaks winking in and out of the clouds. We picnicked on the rocky shores of the Athabasca and skipped tourism developments like the glass Columbia Icefield Skywalk , where admission starts at 41 dollars.

A double rainbow arched across Highway 93 as we entered Banff, the popular Canadian mountain town. We stayed just outside the busy city center at the Juniper Hotel (317 dollars) and used its free shuttle service to hit the town center for a round at Three Bears Brewery and Restaurant (pints 8.95 dollars) and stock up on picnic supplies at Wild Flour Bakery .

A quiet alternative

On a sunny morning, as Banff flexed its magnetism, framing mountain views down seemingly every lane, we backtracked about 18 miles to rejoin Highway 93 as it takes a southwestern swing into Kootenay National Park (22 dollars per family or group).

In Kootenay, we had Marble Canyon, a 200-foot gorge with marble walls polished by a roaring river, to ourselves. Seven bridges allowed us to cross the narrow gap as ruby-crowned kinglets sang from the pines.

We found Kootenay’s crowds at Radium Hot Springs (17.50 dollars). Surrounded by forested slopes, the large pool lacked the aura of a wilderness hot springs, but with family-friendly shallows and a stinging cold plunge, it was a great diversion.

From Kootenay National Park, the U.S. border lies about 140 miles south on uncrowded roads that follow rivers and lakes, skirting the British Columbia ski town of Kimberley , where we spent our last night at its new boutique hotel the Larix (rooms from 155 dollars, including breakfast).

The tiny former lead-, silver- and zinc-mining town is now an outdoorsy destination with three golf courses, a downhill ski area and over 60 miles of bike trails. Restaurants and breweries in the pedestrian center included Hourglass , serving cocktails, charcuterie and cheese plates (from 22 dollars). “We do pack a lot into this little town,” said Breanna Fast, a co-owner.

Just over an hour from the border, Kimberley made a fitting finale to a trip so packed with sights that I never cracked the novel I brought.

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TRAFFIC ADVISORY: 2024 Lawyers Have Heart 5K, 10K, & Fun Run

On Saturday, May 18, 2024, the Lawyers Have Heart 5K, 10K, & Fun Run will take place in the District of Columbia. In conjunction with this event, there will be street closures that motorists should take into consideration:

The following street will be closed by the Metropolitan Police Department to vehicle traffic from approximately 5:30 a.m. to 11:00 p.m.:

• 1200 block of Maine Avenue, SW merge toward Independence Avenue, SW
• Maine Avenue from I-395 Westbound to Independence Avenue, SW
• 9th Street Tunnel ramp to Maine Avenue, SW

The following street will be closed by United States Park Police to vehicle traffic from approximately 5:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.:

• Ohio Drive, SW from 23rd Street, SW to East Basin Drive, SW
• Independence Avenue, SW from 14th Street, SW to 23rd Street, SW
• Rock Creek Parkway from Ohio Drive, NW to Shoreham Hill
• East and West Potomac Parks
• East Basin Drive, SW
• Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW from 15th Street to Maine Avenue, SW
• Ramp from Memorial Circle to Ohio Drive, SW
• Homefront Drive, SW
• Daniel Chester French Drive from Independence Avenue to Lincoln Memorial Circle, SW
• Maine Avenue at ramp from East Basin Drive to Independence Avenue, SW
• 17th Street, NW from Constitution Avenue, NW to Independence Avenue, SW
• Parkway Drive, NW from Lincoln Memorial Circle to Rock Creek Parkway
• 15th Street, NW from Constitution Avenue, NW to Independence Avenue, SW
• Madison Drive, NW from 14th Street, NW to 15th Street, NW
• Jefferson Drive, NW from 14th Street, SW to 15th Street, SW

For timely traffic information, please visit: https://x.com/DCPoliceTraffic

All street closures and listed times are subject to change based upon prevailing or unexpected conditions.

The public should expect parking restrictions along the street and should be guided by the posted emergency no parking signage. All vehicles that are parked in violation of the emergency no parking signs will be ticketed and towed.

Motorists could encounter possible delays if operating in the vicinity of this event and may wish to consider alternative routes. The Metropolitan Police Department and the D.C. Department of Transportation also wishes to remind motorists in the vicinity of this event to proceed with caution as increased pedestrian traffic can be anticipated.

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DNA evidence links 4 Calgary murders from 1970s to dead serial killer

By Kelsey Patterson and Carly Robinson

Posted May 17, 2024 11:04 am.

Last Updated May 17, 2024 9:44 pm.

A convicted sexual offender with an extensive criminal history in Canada and the U.S. spanning several decades is responsible for the deaths of two young women and two girls in Calgary in the 1970s, according to police.

Alberta RCMP say Gary Allen Srery, who died in an Idaho prison in 2011, was a serial killer who was identified using advancements in DNA technology more than 45 years after the murders.

Police say the American killed Eva Dvorak and Patricia McQueen, both aged 14, Melissa Rehorek, 20, and 19-year-old Barbara MacLean in 1976-77.

Their murders went unsolved until a 2022 tip prompted a review of the historical files. That led police to a suspect hypothesis in 2023, and the creation of a family tree using DNA from distant family members on ancestry websites — a police technique known as investigative genetic genealogy.

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The U.S.-born Srery, a serial sexual offender who fled to Canada in the mid-1970s, lived in Alberta and British Columbia until the late 1990s. He was deported to the U.S. in 2003.

Srery, who police say used multiple aliases over the years, was serving a life sentence for sexual assault when he died of natural causes in prison.

Police believe Srery could be responsible for several more homicides and rapes across Canada and the U.S. They are looking for more information about his whereabouts between 1974 and 1978, when his movements are less known to authorities.

Calgary police say they have looked into 114 unsolved homicides, but don’t believe Srery is linked to any of them.

Anyone with information can call the Alberta RCMP’s historical homicide unit at 780-509-3306 or email [email protected].

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The four victims.

Alberta RCMP detailed the similarities between the four young women’s deaths at a Thursday news conference at K Division Headquarters in Edmonton.

Dvorak, McQueen, Rehorek and MacLean were all described as young, vulnerable victims who were last seen in Calgary and out walking during the evening or night. They all died of asphyxiation and were left outside city limits, with no attempts to conceal their remains. Their bodies were found fully clothed with traces of semen, which could not be identified at the time of the crimes because the proper technology did not exist to create a DNA profile.

Dvorak and McQueen were last seen on Feb. 15, 1976, around midnight, walking near 9 Avenue and 12Street SE. Their bodies were found 11 hours later on the road under the Happy Valley underpass, west of the city. Their deaths were initially classified as “sudden” and suspicious, but not homicides.

Rehorek, who had recently moved to Calgary from Windsor, was last seen by roommates at the YWCA downtown, where she lived, on Sept. 15, 1976. The young woman, who worked as a housekeeper at a hotel, had made plans to hitchhike out of town for her two days off work. Her body was found that morning at 10:50 a.m. in a ditch off a gravel road west of Calgary – what’s now known as Township Road 252. Police say there was evidence of a struggle and that she was punched in the head.

MacLean worked at a bank in Calgary after moving from Nova Scotia in September 1976. Five months later, on Feb. 25, 1977, she was last seen walking alone from the Highlander bar on 16th Avenue, where she had been out with friends. Her body was found just after 8 a.m. at 6 Street and 80 Avenue – just outside city limits. Police believe there was a struggle prior to her death as her left fingertips were injured, and she had marks, bruises and scrapes.

Police say the parents of all four victims have since passed away, but siblings and other living relatives have been updated.

Advancements in DNA technology

Alberta RCMP say police never stopped investigating the four deaths over the years. Four task forces were created in the 1990s, and technological advancements were applied in the 2000s. Police say a total of 853 suspects or persons of interests, and 1,490 vehicles were identified and investigated.

In 2003, DNA tests confirmed MacLean and Rehorek were killed by the same person. That DNA was tested again in 2006 and 2012 – comparing it to other suspects and through Interpol. There was no match.

In 2022, exhibits from Dvorak and McQueen’s deaths were resubmitted to the lab. The following year, police matched that DNA to the MacLean and Rehorek murders – linking all four women for the first time.

That led police to develop a DNA profile. The likely source, they determined, was Srery – a discovery that sparked a cross-border investigation.

Police outlined a life of crime for Srery from a young age.

He was convicted of rape and kidnapping in Los Angeles in the late 1960s before later fleeing to Canada. He lived in Calgary and Standard, Alta., from 1976 to 1978, with a brief return to California. Police say he managed to secure an illegal licence and social assistance while in Alberta.

He then moved to B.C. in 1979, where he was at one point employed by BC Ferries. He moved around a lot, from Vancouver (1979-80) to Half Moon Bay (1981-83), Gibsons (1983-88), Abbotsford (1988-90), Cultus Lake (1990-96), and Chilliwack (1996-98).

He was convicted of sexual assault in New Westminster, B.C., in 1996.

Alberta RCMP say Srery has used more than dozen aliases over the years such as Michael James Costello, David Blackwell, Willy (William) Blackman, Rex Edward Long, and Gary Delorme.

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Baltimore City DOT announces traffic alerts for Preakness: Road closures and detours

by Lexi Harpster

BALTIMORE (WBFF) — The Baltimore City Department of Transportation announced traffic modifications that will be in effect for the 149th running of the Preakness Stakes, taking place on Saturday, May 18, 2024, at Pimlico Race Course.

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In preparation for the event, the following road closures and special traffic patterns will be implemented (times approximate):

Friday, May 17, 2024, starting at 5:00 a.m. until Sunday, May 19, 2024, at 1:00 a.m.

• Rogers Avenue – Closed from Winner Avenue to W. Northern Parkway
• Bland Avenue – Closed from W. Northern Parkway to Rogers Avenue
• Key Avenue – Closed from W. Northern Parkway to Rogers Avenue
• Woodcrest Avenue – Closed from W. Northern Parkway to Rogers Avenue
• Merville Avenue – Closed from W. Northern Parkway to Rogers Avenue
• Stuart Avenue – Closed from W. Northern Parkway to Rogers Avenue
• Rogers Avenue – One-way traffic westbound from Winner Avenue to Park Heights Avenue
• Winner Avenue – One-way traffic northbound from Hayward Avenue to W. Northern Parkway

Saturday, May 18, 2024, from 5:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m.

• Westbound Northern Parkway – Right lane closure from Falls Road to W. Rogers Avenue
• Westbound Northern Parkway – Right lane closure from Greenspring Avenue to Pimlico Road
• Westbound Northern Parkway – Left lane closure from Preakness Way to Pimlico Road
• Eastbound Northern Parkway – Left lane closure from Park Heights Avenue to Greenspring Avenue
• Northbound Park Heights Avenue – Left lane closure at Hayward Avenue
• Southbound Park Heights Avenue – Left turn lane closure at Rogers Avenue

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Saturday, May 18, 2024, from 6:00 a.m. to Sunday, May 19, 2024, at 1:00 a.m. or until clear

• Southbound Jones Falls Expressway exit ramp to eastbound W. Northern Parkway will be closed. Motorists will be redirected to the Cold Spring Lane exits.
• Cylburn Avenue – Closed from W. Northern Parkway to Greenspring Avenue

Saturday, May 18, 2024, from 7:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m.

• Hayward Avenue – One-way traffic eastbound from Park Heights Avenue to Winner Avenue

Saturday, May 18, 2024, from 5:00 p.m. to Sunday, May 19, 2024, at 1:00 a.m. or until clear

• The north & southbound Jones Falls Expressway exit ramps to westbound Northern Parkway will be closed. Motorists will be redirected to the Cold Spring Lane exits.

Saturday, May 18, 2024, from 5:00 p.m. until Sunday, May 19, 2024, at 1:00 a.m.

• Pimlico Road – Closed from W. Northern Parkway to Ken Oak Avenue
• Hayward Avenue – One-way traffic westbound from Winner Avenue to Park Heights Avenue
• Rogers Avenue – Closed from Pimlico Road to Greenspring Avenue

Saturday, May 18, 2024, from 7:00 p.m. to Sunday, May 19, 2024, at 1:00 a.m. or until clear:

• Eastbound Northern Parkway – Right lane closure from Key Avenue to Pimlico Road

The DOT advises that patrons attending Preakness festivities are strongly urged to carpool or use public transportation . Motorists that choose to drive to Pimlico Race Course should park at commercial lots and avoid parking in area neighborhoods. All posted parking restrictions will be strictly enforced, and vehicles parked in violation will be ticketed and towed. Vehicles that are relocated during the event will be taken to Cylburn Avenue just south of Northern Parkway. Motorists with questions concerning the location of their vehicle should call 311.

Motorists traveling in northwest Baltimore on Saturday, May 18th may experience delays throughout the day and are encouraged to download the Waze.com app for live detour navigation.