{"id":2353,"date":"2022-08-31T02:14:44","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T02:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/?p=2353"},"modified":"2022-08-31T02:14:47","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T02:14:47","slug":"week-15-dawson-city-to-whitehorse-to-hinton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/31\/week-15-dawson-city-to-whitehorse-to-hinton\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 15: Dawson City to Whitehorse to Hinton"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Finally, it starts to feel like summer! A couple days over 80 degrees! Up until now we’ve only had a handful of days in the 70s, and nothing above 66 for about 5 weeks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

From Dawson City we drove on towards Whitehorse, the capital of the Yukon. The first night we boondocked next to\u00a0Lenore Lake,<\/a>\u00a0and the next night we got an amazing camp site right on the lake at\u00a0Lake Laberge<\/a>, made famous by the Robert Service poem\u00a0The Cremation of Sam Mcgee<\/a>. The lake is huge (and actually part of the Yukon river), but it was totally calm the night we were there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We passed through Whitehorse and didn’t find much that interested us, except the historic SS Klondike<\/a> National Historic site, where Parks Canada has done a great job explaining the importance and challenges of the riverboats in this part of Canada before there were roads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We stopped for a couple hours at Lairds River Hot Springs<\/a>, which was quite nice. The campground was full, so we just camped along the river about 1 mile down the road from the springs. Christine had a hard time not collecting all the amazing rocks in the riverbed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We next spent 2 days at MacDonald Campground<\/a> on Mucho Lake. This is a fantastic no reservation campground where every spot has lake access. I did lots of kayaking on the lake and biked over the Stone Sheep Trail<\/a> to see some really interesting rock formations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next on to Ft Nelson, where we decided to try the Canadian chain restaurant “Boston Pizza<\/a>“, which has nothing to do with Boston (the pizza was OK, not great). Luckily our waitress let us know about a nasty accident which had caused a large bridge fire<\/a> that closed the Alaska Highway to the south where we were headed. But they opened the road to cars and small RVs the next day, so it only delayed us a bit. It could have been much worse, as the only other road would have added about 30 hours of driving. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next on to Dawson Creek, mile 0 of the Alaskan Highway. The town itself was quite unremarkable, but we did learn some interesting stuff about the building of the Alaska Highway. Check out this documentary<\/a> if you want to learn for yourself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We finally made it to our AirBNB in Hinton, just outside of Jasper National Park. We covered 1600 miles in 8 days, a record for us on this trip. Time to do laundry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Full set of photos for the week are here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our campsite is the one on the right<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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We drove the most of the Alaska Highway. So much construction!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Waiting for them to inspect the bridge.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Finally, it starts to feel like summer! A couple days over 80 degrees! Up until now we’ve only had a handful of days in the 70s, and nothing above 66 for about 5 weeks. From Dawson City we drove on towards Whitehorse, the capital of the Yukon. The first night we boondocked next to\u00a0Lenore Lake,\u00a0andContinue reading →<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","no-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2353"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2414,"href":"https:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353\/revisions\/2414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.bltierney.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}