This highway is a narrow country road type. Twists and turns, mountain steep grades. No lines, No breakdown lane, No berms and no shoulder. Throw in frost heaves and pot holes and total isolation. This was the longest stretch of nothingness on the whole trip. The Alaska Highway had a 300 mile stretch but 450 was our record. The Rockies on the left and the coastal mountains on the right. This path was also a contender for the Alaska Highway but was thought to be to close to the Pacific. (Japanese Accessible) This road was gravel until recently. With all that in mind we still wanted to go that way because of what others said about the beauty.