August 31
The campground at Charlie Lake was really nice, large treed lots and very quiet (since it was late and rainy when we arrived). We drove into Ft. St. John for a quick look and for some fuel. Seems the town`s one and only claim to fame is that it is the southern end of the Alaska Highway, and they milk that fully, with a Mile 0
cairn, and an Alaska Highway Hotel etc. From there we backtracked a little & we headed off in the direction of Dawson Creek, detouring on a very scenic road that took us along the Peace River and gave us amazing vistas of fields with freshly mown and baled hay and the river in the background. We passed through the tiny, pretty town of Hudson`s Hope and on to Chetwynd. Every town here has its claim to fame, and Chetwynd has chainsaw statures, scattered all over town. We camped in Dawson Creek for the night, after a brief glimpse of a moose on the roadside.
Sunday a.m. we hit the road and had a pretty uneventful drive. We’ve left the mountains and are in Alberta, on the way to Edmonton, and things have flattened out. For the most part it was sunny with lots of clouds floating about and we did have a brief shower. We did manage to
find the world’s largest beaver in Beaver Lodge, Alberta. We made camp early at a nice little RV park in Valleyview.
The campground at Charlie Lake was really nice, large treed lots and very quiet (since it was late and rainy when we arrived). We drove into Ft. St. John for a quick look and for some fuel. Seems the town`s one and only claim to fame is that it is the southern end of the Alaska Highway, and they milk that fully, with a Mile 0
cairn, and an Alaska Highway Hotel etc. From there we backtracked a little & we headed off in the direction of Dawson Creek, detouring on a very scenic road that took us along the Peace River and gave us amazing vistas of fields with freshly mown and baled hay and the river in the background. We passed through the tiny, pretty town of Hudson`s Hope and on to Chetwynd. Every town here has its claim to fame, and Chetwynd has chainsaw statures, scattered all over town. We camped in Dawson Creek for the night, after a brief glimpse of a moose on the roadside.Sunday a.m. we hit the road and had a pretty uneventful drive. We’ve left the mountains and are in Alberta, on the way to Edmonton, and things have flattened out. For the most part it was sunny with lots of clouds floating about and we did have a brief shower. We did manage to
find the world’s largest beaver in Beaver Lodge, Alberta. We made camp early at a nice little RV park in Valleyview.
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