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Dawson Creek is a small town (11,000 in town, 60,000 in the area) in Northern British Columbia, best known for being mile zero on the Alaska Highway.

Get in

By Bus

  • Greyhound Canada - Station is located at 1201 Alaska Avenue. Daily service to and from Edmonton, Prince George, Fort St. John and Fort Nelson and a seasonal schedule north to Whitehorse.

By Air

By Car

  • Highway 97 - west to Chetwynd and Prince George and north to Fort St. John
  • Highway 2 (aka 43) - south to Grande Prairie/Edmonton

Get around

  • BC Transit provides public transportation around town.

See

Do

  • Events Centre, 300 Highway 2. Spectator events such as concerts, shows, and conventions.

Buy

Dawson Mall comes with some local stores but offers limited goods. Local tourist office where you can buy souvenirs of Alaska Highway and Dawson Creek is located in downtown Dawson Creek, across the Bank of Montreal.

Eat

Restaurants: White Spot, Boston Pizza, Pantry, Urban Fixx, Le's Family, Lodge Cafe, Faking Sanity, Mint, Mr. Mike's and Sola's.

Fastfood: McDonald's, Dairy Queen, Subway, Pizza Hut, Domino's Pizza, Panago's Pizza, Tim Hortons, A&W.

Drink

There are a few bars in the city. Note that the drinking age in BC is 19.

Sleep

There are plenty of hotels, lodges, and RV parks in Dawson Creek. Late spring to summer is peak season where many people visit the city as the beginning of their trip to the Alaska Highway.

Go next

Fort St. John and Grande Prairie (AB) are bigger cities around, where travel time to go to each city takes about 90 mins by car. Greyhound Canada in Dawson Creek offers buses bounded both direction.

Routes through Dawson Creek
END  W  E  Grande PrairieEdmonton
Watson LakeFort Saint John  N  S  ChetwyndPrince George



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