Canada to shut off nightly access to Hyder, Alaska

The Alaska Dispatch News reports that Canada will be cutting off access to Hyder, Alaska from midnight until 8am. Personally I don’t care about the “midnight” part, at least during the winter months, but the 8am part would be hard to swallow.

Some things to understand about this story:

• Hyder has a population of about 80 people. The story says it’s 87.
• The only way to get to Hyder, at least by car, is through Canada.
• Stewart, BC, doesn’t have any bear viewing areas that I know of, but Hyder does.
• Oh, and in the summer months the Sun is up 20+ hours per day, so it can be hard to distinguish midnight from 10pm from 8pm, etc.

I’ve spent a little bit of time in both Stewart and Hyder, and it’s a beautiful, extremely rural area. Here’s a link to things I’ve written about Hyder, Alaska before, and here’s a link to me following some bears in Hyder.