{"id":10120,"date":"2023-06-11T06:00:59","date_gmt":"2023-06-11T13:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/?p=10120"},"modified":"2023-06-11T10:04:12","modified_gmt":"2023-06-11T17:04:12","slug":"fort-nelson-for-a-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/2023\/06\/11\/fort-nelson-for-a-night\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Nelson for a Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/FtNelson2023Image00003-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-10296\" src=\"http:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/FtNelson2023Image00003-300x89.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"89\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/FtNelson2023Image00003-300x89.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/FtNelson2023Image00003-1024x304.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/FtNelson2023Image00003-150x45.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/FtNelson2023Image00003-768x228.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/FtNelson2023Image00003-1536x456.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/FtNelson2023Image00003-2048x609.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The drive to Fort Nelson started out on a very smooth road till we got to Profit River where it became the Alcan road I remembered, lots of potholes to dodge and a few frost heaves to boot most of the way into Ft. Nelson.<\/p>\n<p>My plan was to fuel up some in Ft. Nelson all along; but when I checked that afternoon, I noticed that fuel was almost exactly the same price in Whitehorse as Ft. Nelson, so I put in as much as it would take.\u00a0 It was about $5 a gallon there,\u00a0 quite a difference from the $3.50 diesel @ Costco in Grand Prairie!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/FtNelson2023Image00004.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-10297\" src=\"http:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/FtNelson2023Image00004-150x113.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/FtNelson2023Image00004-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/FtNelson2023Image00004-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/FtNelson2023Image00004-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/FtNelson2023Image00004.jpg 1008w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>We had another one-night stay at the Triple G Hideaway, a very <a href=\"http:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/FtNelson2023Image00001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-10295\" src=\"http:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/FtNelson2023Image00001-113x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"113\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/FtNelson2023Image00001-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/FtNelson2023Image00001-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/FtNelson2023Image00001.jpg 756w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 113px) 100vw, 113px\" \/><\/a>nice place considering all the others on the Alcan highway.\u00a0\u00a0 We didn&#8217;t do much there, although the ladies found a gift shop to drop some coin.\u00a0 We now have a couple new pillows with bears on them.<\/p>\n<p>We headed out in the morning for a leisurely drive to Muncho Lake.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The drive to Fort Nelson started out on a very smooth road till we got to Profit River where it became the Alcan road I remembered, lots of potholes to dodge and a few frost heaves to boot most of the way into Ft. Nelson. My plan was to fuel up some in Ft. Nelson &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/2023\/06\/11\/fort-nelson-for-a-night\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fort Nelson for a Night&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-traveling-the-hiways-and-byways"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10120"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10313,"href":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10120\/revisions\/10313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}