Trans Canada highway

I traveled from Alaska to Winnipeg and paid camping fees only once. If I had went a few miles further I could have avoided this too. Lots of places to pull off and stay overnight.

Your most likely going to be leaving the TC-1 at Lake Louise and head on up to Jasper and North from there. Your good to go, all good road and places to stop. However you can't boondock in any National Park or Provincial park.
Myself I don't travel on the TC-1 west from Lake Louise because of traffic. The section of Hwy TC-1 west from Lake Louise to Salmon Arm is mostly a two lane road with a huge amount of truck traffic heading west and east through out Canada. It is the main truck route between Calgary and Vancouver and is also the main route that a lot of people use as well for accessing BC.
It is a good road , just a LOT of traffic that gets bottles up on the two lane sections, and that's where you see people making stupid moves.
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We will be driving north from Florida and crossing somewhere north of Ft. Drum, New York toward Ottawa then west on the TCH to BC on our way to Alaska. Any real good "not to be missed" along the way?

Four years ago we did Trans Canada from Winnipeg to Calgary and I was impressed by the sometimes wide median strips. Sometimes East and West bound lanes seemed 1/4 mile apart. Of course fuel is considerably more expensive but the vast acreage of Canola and Flax blossoms were beautiful.

Much depends upon the population density adjacent to the Trans Canada (aka TCH).

If the density is high, there will be fewer places to pull off, the high way will be a 4-laner, limited exits, etc.

More rugged terrain, smaller population, will have more places to pull off for boondocking or puppy pit stops.

In Quebec west of Rimouski all the way to Ontario past Ottawa is multilane with rest stops.

Look out when you get off the ferry at Port aux Basques, Newfoundland, speed limit when I moved away in 2008 was 80 km. Folks trying to drive the speed limits on Nova Scotia side had more accidents. Further along the TCH is 100 km.

& at night, get in between the truckers and stay there. You don't want to meet a moose, now do you. Did that one night after changing a flat just after Cow Head when Mr. Moose came up out of the ditch to run ahead of me and I was doing speed limit of 80. Suffice it to say, it took me twice as long to make it to Corner Brook as usual. I might have quit but for the fact that a coworker needed the work van the next day.

Or, adapt to local conditions. I have been known to pull over on the side of the Trans Canada, when I needed to stop. & believe me, if you need to quit driving, I can't imagine any cop who would give you a ticket, for just pulling over out of the line of traffic.

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pigfarmer wrote:
Would like to know what the Trans Canada Highway is like. Is the area along the route anything at all like Alaska? Are there places where one can pull off and boon dock like in the Yukon? We've traveled all of the lower 48 and Alaska but never the Trans Canada Highway. What can we expect? Thank you in advance.

I drove pretty much all the way from BC to NS and there's plenty of places one can stop and boondock in every province,,
You may want to look on google earth too see where the lakes rivers and interesting places are near the road..

What part of the Trans Canada are you thinking of driving on? On the road itself, on some areas it is two lane, others multi-lane. As for the area along side the road, again it depends what part. In the mountainous areas of Canada, I guess you could say it looks a bit like Alaska but across the prairies it looks like Kansas!