Our son, Brennan, our personal geographer and tourist info guide, made us aware of a new (2017) 98-mile gravel highway, the ITH, that connects Inuvik to Tuktoyaktuk (aka Tuk) in the Northwest Territories.. It is the only public road in North America that allows folks to drive all the way to the Arctic Ocean and dip their toes. To get there, one first has to travel the Dempster Highway, 400+ miles one way on a gravel road with two river ferry crossings. All this to drive to the top of the continent? There was no doubt in our minds that we had to do it.