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Originally Posted by Hecate
300000 people a year travel the Alaska highway, it would be similar to the Churchill road in construction. Alaska’s main source of tourism is the cruises. If Alaska can do it so can we. It would become a bucket list type destination. Over 4,000,000 people a year visit Yellowstone national park in Wyoming... a state with less than 600,000 people. The park isn’t next to any major cities drawing tourists. It’s in the middle of nowhere. People go because it’s properly marketed and it’s accessible for everyone. You can stay in an expensive lodge or you you can camp in a cheap tent. How many people saw that price is right thing and thought that would be cool to go to Churchill... . only to find out it’s five grand a person and only for three days. You could take a family of four to Mexico for a week for the price of one person going to Churchill.
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Churchill is roughly 1000km as the crow flies from Winnipeg. No other major city is nearby.
Major cities within 1000km of Old Faithful (arguably the main attraction of Yellowstone), as the crow flies:
Denver, Regina, Saskatoon, Calgary, Vegas, Seattle, Portland, Salt Lake City.
Vancouver, Edmonton, Sacramento, Albuquerque, Oklahoma City are also just outside this 1000km.
Yellowstone is also near other parks, attractions, and amenities so people can make a road trip out of going to Yellowstone and the US Rockies. Churchill has Churchill, nothing except maybe York Factory to make a trip out of, so you have to be going there exclusively for Churchill and its attractions, not something to see on the way, as some people might treat Old Faithful, which would count towards the tourist count.
Churchill currently has no roads, and would probably require a gas station midway between Gillam and Churchill (270kms total), with nothing in between to justify doing a road building project in phases. Yellowstone is well linked.
Night and day in terms of comparison.