For photographer Marc Urbano, it represented terra incognita. La Ronge is a dusty, hardscrabble burg, predominately populated by Woodland Cree. Two-thousand and three miles later, we’d made it as far as La Ronge, Saskatchewan, which marked the end of pavement and the start of gravel. And the example that arrived in our parking lot belonged to the Ford Motor Company. Not your own truck.”Ī 411-hp SVT Raptor is a sturdy truck. “You’ll wanna bring a truck,” advised a third.

Plenty of Canadians and hard-core fishermen know of its existence, but few will describe it in any but the most vague, ominous, unhelpful terms. It dead-ends just 47 miles shy of the Northwest Territories. For years, I’d heard tales of a scenic but topographically malevolent gravel road that leads 420 miles to the top of the province of Saskatchewan, Canada.