This Aishihik River crossing has a long history. In 1903, a wagon road was built from Whitehorse to Kluane Lake. Gilbert Skelly and Sam McGee built a bridge over the river, known then as Canyon Creek. By the 1920s trucks were using the wagon road to transport people and freight. In 1923, the bridge was rebuilt by Gene and Louis Jacquot when they upgraded the road on a government contract. This bridge was dismantled by the U.S. Army in 1942 and rebuilt by the 18th Engineers Regiment. This log bridge still exists today as a heritage interpretative site.

Another more permanent crossing was built in 1943: the Aishihik River Bridge was a steel structure downstream from the log bridge. Unlike its log counterpart, the steel bridge has not survived. In 1968, the Department of Public Works Canada replaced it with a new steel bridge during a major bridge replacement program.