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Miles from Yellowhead Highway junction (J) shown. Also watch for logging and freight trucks on the highway. Drive with your headlights on at all times. There are no passing lanes, beyond one in the first few miles of the highway, The centerline and edge line markings may be missing along some northern sections of the highway. Although not particularly hilly, there are a few 8 percent grades and 2 switchback turns. It has easy curves and some long straight stretches. The highway is generally narrower than most 2-lane highways, with little or no shoulder. The Cassiar Highway was completed in 1972, and is asphalt-surfaced with the exception of a few short gravel breaks. The Cassiar also provides access to Telegraph Creek via a 70-mile/113-km side road from Dease Lake junction at Milepost J 303.9. The Cassiar provides access to Hyder, AK, and Stewart, BC, via the 40-mile/64-km Stewart-Hyder access road (Highway 37A) from Meziadin Junction at Milepost J 97. Driving the Cassiar Highway instead of the entire Alaska Highway saves about 130 miles/210 km. The Cassiar Highway offers outstanding scenery and good wildlife viewing, especially of black bears in the spring. The Cassiar Highway junctions with Yellowhead Highway 16 at Milepost PG 298, Skeena River bridge, and travels north to junction with the Alaska Highway at Milepost DC 626.2, 13.3 miles/21.4 km west of Watson Lake, YT. Yellowhead Highway Junction to Alaska Highway Junction