May you travel far and wide
Seward to Glacier View 229 miles. The drive was beautiful! After Anchorage the highway was lined with green forest, rivers and lakes and steep mountains. Glacier View’s name says it all. The skies were a little smokey when we arrived around 3:30 pm so the photos didn’t do justice. The scene photo below is from around 9:00 pm.
We traveled 292 miles from Glacier View to Chicken on the Alaska 1 North, the Glenn Highway – Tok cutoff, and the Taylor Highway. Another amazing drive with so much to see – endless forest, rolling hills and mountains.
Chicken was founded in the 1890s by prospectors mining for gold. The early miners wanted to name their camp ptarmigan but they were unable to spell it so they named the town Chicken. The population is 23 in the summer and 7 in the winter. We are staying in Chicken Gold Camp.
We left Chicken this morning to travel to the historic gold rush town of Dawson City, Yukon located on the Yukon River and Klondike River. The 109 miles of gravel road mix on the Taylor Highway and Top of the World Highways are some of the most spectacular views I have ever seen. Around mile 60 we crossed the international border from Alaska to Yukon Territory and cleared customs. At the end of the Top of the World Highway we crossed the Yukon River on the George Black Ferry. The river is high, and the current is fast for this time of year.
The old town of Dawson City roads are dirt and the buildings the original architecture. We enjoyed exploring the town. The entire day was an adventure.
Traveled from Dawson City to Carmacks on the North Klondike Highway – 220 miles.
Highlight vivid bright wildflowers lined the highway mile after mile as if they were planted.
We had 2 major sections of road construction of about 25 miles where we had to follow a pilot car for oneway traffic. Some sections were so muddy that we had to put the truck in 4-wheel drive.
Travel – Carmacks to just outside of Ross River (Yukon Territory) – 145 miles.
We stopped in the active mining town of Faro with population of 500. The small town had very few streets with a large park and a vistor interactive center in the middle of town. We drove down one street with a greenbelt and saw a fox in the field.
We stayed the night in the Lapie Canyon campground where there are 20 campsites.
We continued on the Campbell Highway from Ross River, Yukon to Watson Lake, British Columbia for 225 miles.
This is our 2nd time staying a night in Watson Lake. We overnighted at the RV Camp Little Nugget. Watson Lake is a junction for the Cassier Highway.
Watson Lake to Kinaskan Lake – 230 mile via the Cassier Highway. We stopped many times along the way to take in the views and smell the dandelions. Wonderful overnight at the Kinaskan Lake Campground.
