Driving the Alaska-Canada Highway

Blue lakes in the Yukon

We left Whitehorse with a pretty late start and didn't make it as far as we had thought on our first day driving. We only got to Watson Lake, and stayed at a government camp ground there. The government camp grounds are so cheap in the Yukon ($12.50 per night), but they don't have showers and the only water is non-potable.

A weird bird at the camp grounds (a grouse)

In the morning we headed into town to have a look at the signpost forest, before heading on to Liard River Hot Springs for lunch and a dip.

So many signs!

Driving the Al-Can highway was pretty boring compared to our drive on the way up, it's much more scenic to come the other way.

Some guys we met in Juneau that happened to stop at the hot springs at the same time as us

The Liard Hot Springs were some of the nicest we've been to, because they're still in a natural setting. It's $5 entry to them (and to the park in general), but it's worth it for how nice they are. There was a really bad bear attack here a few years ago, where two people were killed and the bear had started eating another before a member of the public shot it. After that they closed the top hot springs pool. I guess so people are less spread out.

After lunch and a swim, we headed off again, to Fort Nelson. As I said, the drive was really boring, with the only interesting parts when we occasionally saw animals beside the road. We saw bison one two occasions and a porcupine (a highlight for me).

Spring flowers aren't out yet, or maybe they never really come out in the way that I imagined. But there are a few here and there beside the road, and in the camp grounds.

We made it to Fort Nelson, and were both just not feeling like camping, so we booked a motel room. It was quite amusing because the renovations had obviously been home done, and were just awful. The bathroom door was super crooked, and the tiling was rough as anything.
The next morning we finished the Alaska-Canada highway in Dawson Creek. Which is just an average Northern city with not much to do. We did quite like the RV park we stayed at, and it was funny to see our little car next to the massive RVs.