Dawson Creek, BC

Ironically, we arrived in Dawson Creek on June 13^th, exactly four years after our 2011 trip to Alaska. Dawson Creek, a town of around 12,000 people, is best known as Mile 0 of the Alaskan Highway. We celebrated Lisa’s birthday on Saturday, June 13^th, and played cards after a nice dinner and birthday cake in the motorhome.

We visited the Alaskan Highway museum and got our photo taken at the Mile 0 marker. The museum is well done in documenting the construction of the 1,523-mile road from Dawson Creek to Fairbanks by the U.S. Army in only 8-months.

 

We drove 21-miles up the Alaska Highway to see an original bridge of the highway—the 531-foot Kiskatinaw Bridge. It is the oldest, curved, banked wooden bridge in North America today.

Kiskatinaw Bridge

We also did some provisioning at the local Safeway grocery store for our first leg of the trip up the Alaskan Highway. Tomorrow we drive the first 300-miles of the Alaskan Highway to Fort Nelson, BC.

Steve & Julie Cornelius