Top of the World Highway: A Remote Road Trip From Alaska to the Yukon

[@ThroughMyLens]

Would you try the Sourtoe Cocktail???

[@kitdriscoll1288]

No ...I don't drink, and I'm not a cannibal. (Is it really a human toe?!?!!)

[@goinsomewheretogether]

Yes! I did!

[@Benno101able]

Nope haha

[@Duhaubetahiks]

Hell to the NO!

[@daviotkelly1267]

Life is short man, gotta put your best foot forward all the time lol

[@twochickens3954]

I can’t believe I missed this video! Seeing Pops enjoying Chicken just warms my heart. 💖🐓🐓🍗😂 I think I would try the sour toe cocktail if it weren’t for the whiskey. 🥴 One of these days I’ll get my old carcass up there in my traveling coop 🚐

[@michellebieke2589]

Visited Chicken and Dawson City this past summer/2024. Enjoyed revisiting in your video. Great job!

[@rhondaz356]

I absolutely LOVE all of your videos. This one was no exception. It must be so fascinating to take that trip. Thank you so much, Josh and Josh's Dad for bringing us along. FANtastic as ALWAYS. No, I wouldn't have had that drink with the human toe. YIKES...🙃 👏🏻🤠🤠👏🏻🏞

[@ThroughMyLens]

Glad you enjoyed it! haha I don't blame you, it was a very strange thing to do for sure haha!

[@klondikechris]

I live just outside of Dawson City, and I go up the Midnight Dome very often because the view is spectacular. On a clear day you can see about 80 kilometers, or possibly more. Dawson is an amazing place to live, although the winters and summers are quite different from each other. It is a pity that so many people are going to, or from Alaska, because they miss the Dempster Highway, which is another spectacular drive. Right up to the Arctic Ocean!

[@SaltyCado]

I always get excited to feel like I'm traveling with y'all lol! Love the content

[@ThroughMyLens]

Happy to hear that!

[@SaltyCado]

@@ThroughMyLens I will await the day you and pops decide to check out Savannah Georgia and Tybee Island!! One of my favorite places and I feel like y'all would love it

[@ursinidaho]

Great video. Good to see you and your Dad.

[@ontheroadwithRalph]

Great video. We did the Top of the World Highway, this past summer. And we were towing our Airstream. The scenery was amazing and the road did bounce a few things around in the RV, but nothing that duct tape couldn't fix.

[@DyanK614]

Could not smiling throughout your video. We did this drive in June 2023 and it brought back great memories! We loved Chicken. Luckily we had no wait for the ferry. We did not do the toe cocktail- not that brave. The views from midnight dome are amazing- you’ll just have to go back to Dawson City again to see for yourselves. Thanks for brightening up my day,!

[@ThroughMyLens]

Thanks for the comment and I am so glad you got to do this drive as well! I would love to go back to see Midnight Dome again, I can't imagine how stellar it is!

[@RaySaladino]

Hi, Josh My Wife and I are enjoying your videos especially the Alaska, Canada ones. I was very blessed to be able to go in the summer of 2007. I had a camera but not one that would take video. I took the "Top of the World hwy" on my way home in late August early September it was Awesome and your video brought back a lot of wonderful memories. You asked about the view from the high point overlooking the city of Dawson and the Yukon it is Awesome I had a clear day when I was there. I would put a picture in the comment but don't see a way to do that. Another wonderful drive east of Dawson was the Dempster Hwy to the "Tombstone Territorial Park" Thanks for letting me relive some memories, Ray😊

[@garygrow8373]

Excellent! I love your videos. For 20 minutes I was totally engaged in your trip. My only concern is... the video ended too soon. Your video and producing skills are perfect. Thank you and your dad for offering a glimpse of your travels.

[@experimemory]

Thanks for taking us along, capturing the essence of the remote beauty that many dream of exploring. Truly a visual masterpiece!🎉

[@evh2148]

Did this trip in our RV. Loved it as much as you and your Dad did! Your videos are awesome.🥰

[@ThroughMyLens]

Awesome! Thank you! So glad you got to do it as well

[@christopherrobinson3290]

Wow y’all really get around! The saloon in Chicken looks like a must visit for sure! Thanks for documenting your travels and sharing and recommending to someone on the East coast who would otherwise not find out about these places! 👊🏾

[@kplante7881]

Such a cool trip and video! Thanks for sharing…

[@xiggroc]

Such a beautiful place all the views man! So glad to see you and pops having a good time !👏 that sour toe cocktail is horrifying 🤣😭 actually

[@andreajohnson1796]

Wonderful site, Thanks for sharing Josh and Pops

[@ThroughMyLens]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@timlavance867]

Glad to see a new video from you.. thanks!!

[@goinsomewheretogether]

We did The Top of the World this past summer going the opposite direction from Dawson City to Chicken. We were one of 25 RVs in the tour group lead by Fantasy RV Tours. Absolutely wonderful trip, along with the gnarly toe.

[@rkmatt8761]

Great video. I’ve enjoyed all of them. I also watched Traveling Robert’s videos of Alaska. I saw that they ran into y’all in Dawson city as well. That’s pretty cool and is a small world. Stay safe stay healthy

[@ThroughMyLens]

Yea, I wish we would have filmed something with him, it was really cool to run into him!

[@calledtojourney]

It's cool that you got to meet Traveling Robert in Dawson City as well!

[@christopherlands2706]

Yes! That made me smile- my 2 favorites!!

[@popshiking]

@calledtojourney Yes it was really fun to meet him and his wife.

[@maryfettig3378]

Sorry thats a no toe for me😂😂I. You guys are great together!

[@traveleats6833]

We did it in the reverse, Dawson City then to Chicken. We spent 5 days in Dawson city during Discovery Days , doing the walking tours, staying in the Gold Rush Campground, visiting the Original gold claim, a tour of Dredge #4 and of course panning for gold. We visited the Midnight Dome. we both did the Sourtoe and visited the Can-can girls at Diamond Tooth Gerties Saloon. Yes we drove the Top-of-the-world-Highway.. the scenery was absolutely amazing. We loved it so much in 2023, we are going back in Aug 2024!

[@kflorence2219]

Another great video!

[@crazylarry1959]

When in Dawson city considering your not around the corner from home lol you have to try the cocktail .Josh and Pops two of my favorite people in the vlogging world you must do more content both of you are so informative and entertaining thank you so much Larry from long island ny

[@popshiking]

@crazylarry1959 Thanks so much for the kind words!

[@robhunter4639]

We looked hard to see content on the Top of The World Highway (short cut from Dempster Highway to Fairbanks). Great video - you took the mystery out of the drive. Hmm, Sourtoe Cocktail looks like a very gross challenge. Might be up for it - I'll let you know if I "chicken" out. Happy Travels!!

[@ThroughMyLens]

So glad the video was helpful! It is an amazing route for sure

[@louise3993]

Hard hard pass on the Sourtoe cocktail. Please tell me that was not a real toe. 😮 Another great video Be safe 😊

[@popshiking]

@louise3933 Yes, it was a real toe! And they had a big fine if you ate it, so I guess someone must have in the past. Now that is really gross!

[@jerryjensen9500]

I also experienced the sourtoe cocktail, but in 2018. Motorcycle ride from Oregon.

[@seethebutter]

Thanks!

[@dorinezgoncalves5354]

Boa tarde tudo bem que lugares lindo ❤

[@ThroughMyLens]

Glad you liked the video!

[@chuckpotter1209]

Great video. What time of year did you travel the Top of the World Highway? I have heard the the river could be closed due to heavy snow melt.

[@NikkaMunda-c2i]

Love your content

[@evh2148]

Thank you

[@ThroughMyLens]

Thanks!

[@hikingelevated]

Great video! Need to do this and would love to get that certification for drinking with a toe in it even though I don't drink lol.

[@ThroughMyLens]

haha I figured I really needed that certification 😂

[@C-TOS]

You are a bold one, Josh.

[@Xx-ib6bf]

Would have enjoyed a Map with your drive highlighted so we could see & have a perspective of your actual route.

[@ThroughMyLens]

Thanks for the comment! I normally make maps but I didn't for this one since there weren't a lot of stops along the drive but I will next time

[@internationalhouseofprayer6759]

The TOE!!!! Oh no!!!!! 😂😂

[@charleshartig3247]

Thumbs up, watch 'til end, comment: Thanks!

[@justinbond1983]

Why did the road cross Chicken? To get to the other side...😅

[@jimgreen5788]

For those who don't know the story of Chicken, and how it got its name, I offer this hilarious story: (copied from Wikipedia): “Chicken was settled by gold miners in the late 19th century, and in 1902 the local post office was established, requiring a community name. Due to the prevalence of ptarmigan (TAR-mih-gun) in the area, that name was suggested as the official name for the new community. However, the spelling could not be agreed on, and Chicken was used to avoid embarrassment.” Thus, it’s probably the only place in the country, maybe the world, that was named because of spelling insecurity on the part of the namers. Around the national border I saw a wolverine dash across the road. Out on the back side of nowhere, I blew a tire. But within a few minutes, a pair of young miners changed it as fast as Bo and Luke Duke on "Dukes of Hazard". When I got into town around 10:30, there was someone running a chainsaw in the midnight sun.

[@Harold710]

Is Boundary still there?

[@mitchellharris7933]

Where are you and your dad from. I noticed your dad wearing an Illini hat, and I was just wondering if you were from Illinois.

[@popshiking]

@mitchellharris7933 I went to school at U of Illinois and Josh was actually born there! We live in California now.

[@mitchellharris7933]

@popshiking awesome I'm originally from Peoria, IL, but know I live in Boise,ID

[@mitchellharris7933]

Come check out Idaho sometime you'll love it.

[@violetbf3773]

Did you see any live chickens in Chicken town? 😁🐓

[@hissam_Animates]

which car do you have?

[@ThroughMyLens]

We drove in a Chevy Traverse

[@C-TOS]

Ironic, Josh and Pops went... where chickens go to roost...

[@IMJAFO2]

Chicken, Alaska.......which came first? The Chicken or the egg?

[@knappdaddy]

I never knew I wanted to go to Dawson city and the Yukon, but now I do !! Thank you both :)

[@natdongoingsomewhere]

Does Pops have Instagram? We want to see his chicken selfies😂

[@ThroughMyLens]

haha I wish, I tried to have him send me the chicken selfie and never got it!

[@popshiking]

@natdongoingsomewhere I think I must have deleted the pics by accident! Was a fun quick stop there.

[@JohnDoe-xk8iy]

"Chicken pops"

[@popshiking]

@JohnDoe-xk8iy Too often that's true! Hahaha

[@evh2148]

NEVER!!!

[@ThroughMyLens]

haha fair enough

[@prowrestlingisart6742]

I think my response would be “sour-no” to that tradition.

[@ThroughMyLens]

haha!!

[@sarahko2014]

I really enjoy most of your vlogs but this is the weidest one I've seen...🤦‍♀️🙃