Roll Call Alaska 2014
Anyone traveling to Alaska in 2014? We ,my wife and I, are planning a trip and was wondering if anyone is planning on going in 2014 also. Would go this year, except we have two weddings to go to in...
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sue.t wrote:
Dawson Creek to Fort Nelson is a hectic, busy area. We ended up sharing a road widening with numerous transport trucks after having driven for endless hours looking for a place to camp. We checked Fort Nelson, Pink Mountain, Wonowon, Ft St John - nothing was available. Then after 400 miles and being tired, we pulled in behind a parked transport truck at about 9 p.m. and went to sleep.
The trucks on the road are in a hurry to get where they're going, with deadlines to meet. So keep your own rig pointed straight and slow to let them pass when they have an opportunity. Nothing worse than an impatient trucker behind you!
Because of that experience, we started using the Cassiar Highway both north and south bound.
We were planning to stay at Fort Nelson about June 13 for the first night out of Dawson Creek, but it sounds like that might not be doable due to campgrounds jammed with oil field workers. The next place beyond Fort St. John with a full service campground is Toad River/Poplars, but that is about a 400 mile jaunt from Dawson Creek. Is that a reasonable distance, or do we need to plan to dry camp somewhere around Fort Nelson? Any suggestions?
