Month: June 2017

Today we had a pretty drive up through to Whitehorse. We had a few pretty lakes along the way, and roads were fair too. Arriving at Whitehorse, we decided on a campground on the outskirts of town called Pioneer Campground and managed to get a site up in the trees. After setting up, we took a visit into the visitor centre followed by a drive around town to get our bearings. We drove along Miles Canyon, where we were able to get out and walk across the river on a suspension bridge. We certainly were high up above the water!

While we were touring around the town, we passed by Walmart – and as Paul says “Oh look, Walmart opened a store in a campground!” In all our years of travelling the country and seeing campers (sometimes us) overnight, we have never experienced it to the degree that this store has. You wonder if it is this busy at this time of the tourist season, what must it look like in the middle of July? Some of these rigs looked like they had been set up almost permanently! Where do the paying customers park?

Next up, historical sites….

June 6, 2017

Before we left Watson Lake, we stopped so I could buy a fishing license. Today’s drive was pretty through some more mountain passes (but not like the Rockies we had envisioned). We stopped along the way and had a small hike out to a waterfall. It was an easy walk, and we met some others along the way that were from eastern USA. We had a chance to compare notes – they are going to be gone about the same amount of time as we are, but they will be moving faster through the next week as their reservations in Denali are about June 12th.

Finally, we stopped for the night in another small Yukon government park. We were a bit later stopping, so not as much choice in sites, but we managed to find a nice one that we could see the lake from, even though we were quite high up.

After supper, we gathered up the fishing gear and headed down to the river. We met some men from Germany who had been out quite a while. They told us they had caught a pike from shore.

My luck wasn’t so good – just lots of casting practice. It was a rocky beach and Paul gathered up some pebbles while I fished. Another campfire (Firewood is free in Yukon government parks!) and still not much for bugs. It’s also strange now because we are starting to see a lot of light late into the night – at 11 pm it is still light.

Next up – arrival at Whitehorse, the capital of Yukon.