Liard Hot Springs

5/25 - 5/27/14
Fort Nelson to Liard Hot Springs
194 miles
Liard Hot Spring Prov Park
Still great weather

The road has still been way better than expected. Since we have been driving almost every day we decided to stay for two nights.  The campground is immaculate and almost every site is very large.  I would definitely stay here again.  PLUS the magnificent hot springs, the best I have ever been to are Very clean along with a very well maintained board walk out to the springs and brand new decking and changing rooms.

The next pictures along the side of the road

Momma and three cubs

I only took a picture of this because it's a good place to stop for coffee; a large cup, which you provide the cup is only $2.50, the best bargain so far

Stone Sheep, we have probably seen at least 100 of them.

Carabou, have seen about 4 or 5, here and there, no herds

Muncho Lake, looks like a good place to stay and fish.
The ice was just breaking up.

They have just the cutest little puffy white butts.

That's it for now, really enjoying the fresh air and scenery

Safe travels to all

Nancy

  

Fort Nelson

Dawson Creek to Fort Nelson
5/24/14
Blue Bell Inn
A little rainy but no downpour

Gravel campground behind the Motel/Gas Station/Convenience store.  Good sites, very nice bathrooms.  Dawson Creek to Fort Nelson is 283 miles.  Normally we would not travel that far but the roads were good so we kept going.  The roads are better that what I thought they would be, at least at this point.

After leaving Dawson Creek we took a little side road where we were able to drive on the original Alaska Highway and to cross the curved wooden, Kiskatinaw River Bridge.  This 531 foot/162 m long structure is the only original timber bridge built along the Alaska Hiway that is still in use today.

Looking down on the 

Kiskatinaw River

Such a shame that someone
had to tag this sign













This is the best shot I could get. Some interesting facts if you can enlarge or use a magnifying glass like I had too.

Just one of those magnificent 

views that you see along the road

Many, many artifacts
at this museum

If you have the time and have never been it's a good stop

That's a well build culvert

A very good display of

old cars and most of 

them run.

A Harley, no year on it.

One of several original

tractors used to build

the Alaska Hwy.

I've had no or lousy internet for several days so I am playing catch-up.  Next posting will be Liard Hot Springs Prov. Park

Safe travels to all, thanks for stopping by

Nancy

Onward to Alaska

5/21/14
Sheridan Lake to Prince George
Mostly overcast with a few sun breaks

A very nice drive, no pictures though.  At Prince George we stayed at Bee Lazee RV Park about 12 miles south of Prince George.  We should have stayed at the next campground that was closer because this is where we needed to get some fresh veggies and the driving back and forth took at least 2 gal of diesel. 

5/22/- 5/23/14
Prince George to Dawson Creek
Overcast with sprinkles of rain but lots of sun breaks

A very nice drive, saw one large beautiful black bear along the side of the road, also several deer and one coyote.  We are staying at Northern Lights RV Park, about 1.5 miles from Dawson Creek.

Stopped at Bijoux Falls Provincial Park to see the falls. They were roaring down the hillside

Along the way we stopped at Chetwynd to see their world famous chainsaw carvings, and they were amazing.  The International Chainsaw Carving Championship takes place about June 6 - 9.  There are over 100 carvings to see.  We saw many but only took a few pictures.

More pictures along the way to Dawson Creek:

Dawson Creek, we visited The Alaska Highway House, this is a must see to any visitor, great displays and a superb video of how and why the "Alcan" was made.  This was uncharted territory and the 1,523 mile road went through in just 8 months.  We cannot even begin to understand the hardships that these men went through.  To speed up the process, crews started in Dawson Creek, BC, Whitehorse, Yukon and Big Delta, Alaska working towards each other with a plan to meet up somewhere in the middle

Dawson Creek has many murals, here is a few depicting the hardships of building the Alaskan Hwy:

Also visited the Dawson Creek Rail Station Museum, which contains pioneer artifacts also showing how the Station Master lived with his family.

Beautiful stove from the original Station Master

Plate on side of stove

This was a very modern kitchen, notice the bin in the cupboard that would hold grain, probably wheat and the handle would turn in order to get the flour.  close up below

Children's bedroom

and, the parents room

The Train Master's office

The train station

One of about 6 grain elevators in Dawson Creek back "in the day"


















We also visited the little town of Pouce Coupe  There are several ways as to how to say this name.  Currently they say Pouce (Poos, rimes with juice) and Coupe (coup as in chicken coop with a y sound at the end, so its coopy)  They have a great museum where everything has been donated by people that have lived in the area.  The other thing they have is a famous wooden curved railroad bridge. Not in use at this time, it's a beautifully engineered structure.

And, of course the famous sign 

That's about it for Dawson Creek, tomorrow we are headed to Fort Nelson.  Fort Nelson is about 288 miles north, if we stop too many times we will have to stay somewhere along the way.

Thanks for stopping by, safe travels to all.

Nancy