Atlin Road

The Atlin Road is a road in British Columbia and Yukon, Canada. It is designated as Highway 7 in Yukon,^[1] and has no official highway number in British Columbia.

Atlin Road
Yukon Highway 7
Route information
Maintained by Department of Highways and Public Works
Length	91.8 km (57.0 mi) YT-7: 42.4 km (26.3 mi)[1]
Existed	1949–present
Major junctions
South end	Discovery Ave in Atlin
North end	Hwy 8 near Jakes Corner
Location
Country	Canada
Province	Yukon
Highway system
Territorial highways in Yukon Miscellaneous
British Columbia provincial highways
← Hwy 6 → Hwy 8

It was built by the Canadian Army in 1949, connecting the village of Atlin, British Columbia, with the Tagish Road just one mile west of the Alaska Highway at historic mile 866 (Jakes Corner).^[2]

By the mid-1980s, the Yukon section had been improved, being wide and straight, and the B.C. section, which has no official highway number, was narrow, winding, with some less-than-optimum grades. Most of the section in B.C. runs along the eastern shore of Atlin Lake.

By 2000, the B.C. section had been improved and partially paved, but there were complaints about the Yukon section.^{[citation needed]}

By 2007, reconstruction had started on the Yukon section once again. The road has once again been widened and surfaced with a bitumen surface treatment. The completion of the most recent reconstruction was finished by 2016. By spring 2014, only 5 km of road, including two small bridges, remained to be reconstructed.

From Atlin, there are area roads both to the east and the south.

As of October 2017, both the Yukon and the British Columbia portions of the Atlin Road are in very good condition, with very few potholes.

References

1. "Highways Regulation, YOIC 2002/174". CanLII. p. 32. Retrieved 2023-12-10.
2. Holmes, Kenneth John (1997). Newell, J.R. (ed.). The History of the Canadian Military Engineers: Volume III to 1971. Toronto: Military Engineering Institute of Canada. pp. 191–192. ISBN 9780968206300.

60.000°N 133.7943°W / 60.000; -133.7943