On the Yellowhead Highway between Prince George and Prince Rupert, BC, Canada, there's a turn off for a side trip that takes you to a tiny piece of Alaska. It's the only town in the southern part of the Inside Passage that is accessible by road. All other towns are accessible only by plane or ferry.
So we took the 6 hour detour and visited Hyder, Alaska. Beautiful drive through snow-covered mountains, past Bear Glacier, which you see the end of from the road. We saw several black bears along the way. Hyder: totally isolated, population 100, unpaved streets, with about 3 resident bears that live in town. Canada on one side and the Misty Fjord National Monument Wilderness on the other. Law enforcement officers have to come from Ketchikan and can take hours or days to arrive. This is not particularly a place you end up by accident. We had a good meal at The Bus, one of the 2 places in town to eat. We also saw a bear having lunch at the dump. There's also a Bear Observation place here where you can see bears fish for salmon in late July.
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