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| From the campground’s website |
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| Also hope to see bears safely. Salmon should be running now until September and the bears love it! |
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| Looks like others followed our lead for a good lunch spot heading to Watson Lake! 4 travel trailers and 2 small motor homes in front of us. |
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| Lunch stop view: Priceless |
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| This portion of our trip retraced part of our original route. It was nice to see it again and from the opposite direction. |
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| The Yukon and BC can’t be beat for scenery |
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| Tok to Border Crossing: 90 miles and easy entering The Yukon. After that we drove past the fire that delayed us entering Alaska. The fire jumped the highway at several locations. Sad to see the damage. The first thing to come back is fireweed! |
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| Seemed to stretch 10 miles if the highway just past Beaver Creek. |
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| A different view of Kluane Lake: cloudy and late afternoon. |
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| A gas station with rv sites! $30 for full hookups, pull through and wood for a fire! |
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| 23 total sites in a gravel/grass parking lot. Typical along Alaska Highway in small towns. Pull in, have dinner, shower, sleep, have breakfast, unhook and go! Part of the journey.... |
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| 1123 miles: Tok to Stewart &Hyder As we retrace part of our trip there is less if a chance to post daily. We will be traveling back along the Alaskan Highway from Tok to Watson Lake. At Watson Lake we’ll head south along the Cassiar Highway to Stewart and Hyder. The extra miles are for our inland route that we planned. We chose not to take any ferries, along the marine Highway, because our dog would have to be kenneled on board. That’s a nonstarter for Rose, and good news for Paddy! |
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| Beautiful scenery but horrible road conditions. You need to follow a pilot car in and out of major road work. This is the nightmare of bad Alaska roads |
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| Frost heaves and road work everywhere on this leg. Impossible to even do a posted speed limit. Stressful to say the least. |
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| Quiet campground to pull into at the end of our travel day on the Tok Cut Off Route! If you are coming in to Alaska on the Alaska Highway Tok is the first town. It is often the last most people see on the way home. We head to the Canadian Border tomorrow but will travel south to the town of Stewart. There we will cross back into Alaska to the town of Hyder. Salmon run from mid July to September and Hyder has a great spot to view bears, from a safe distance, going for salmon in the river there! We will also get a chance to see both Bear and Salmon Glacier!!!!! Stewart is an orderly Canadian town and Hyder is a tiny Alaskan bush town. Two entirely different towns just at the border. Still plenty of travel left for us including the Canadian Rockies. Jasper and Banff are their National Parks and we hope to spend a week there! |
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| After Palmer the highway begins to wind its way through a mountain pass and climb towards the Copper River Valley. |
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| One of many lakes along this portion of the Glen Highway. This is Long Lake. |
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| Our lunch spot overlooking the glacier. This is at Mile Marker 101. |
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| Matanuska Glacier |
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| Stoney Creek RV Park |
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| Creek just across from our site. |
