Dawson Creek Mile "0" then on to Edmonton

Saturday – Tuesday August 22-25, 2009

Before arriving at Dawson Creek we took a side trip down the only original remaining road left on the Alaska Highway. It is 10 miles long and your journey will take you on broken pavement and gravel. The highlight will be crossing the only original bridge remaining today. It is a wooden curved piece of art.

Today we traveled to Dawson Creek where we took in a very nice little museum at the visitor’s center as well as took the requisite pictures of the beginning of the Alaskan Highway. There are two signs, one at the visitor’s center on the new highway

and the original marker in an intersection in the middle of town.
This Mile “0”. Your first or last stop in our case when driving the Alaska Highway.

We drove a little out of town to stay at a municipal campground that was in the Milepost as a $5.00 bargain. The campground is now privately owned and was now $11.00 for dry camping, $16.00 for hook-up. We stayed 2 nights to again do school work and take a break from driving. The total mileage is now close to 7000 miles traveled since June 1.

Monday we crossed from BC into Alberta and found a Passport America park, The Alberta Beach Golf Resort. We decided to stay a couple of days where we had full hook-ups to do laundry, defrost the fridge and all that stuff we don’t have time for while traveling so much. Strangely we find that the water here is not potable, so won’t be able to do all the cleaning we’d hoped.

Tomorrow we head a little north of Edmonton to visit with friends we met during our stay in Yuma last winter. Then we are homeward bound. We will be going through Jasper and Banff National Parks. We have visited this area many years ago with my sister Julie and her husband and think the scenery is just magnificent. I hope the weather holds out so the mountains can stand proud.

Stay tuned……………………………………………..