{"id":10316,"date":"2023-06-17T06:00:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-17T13:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/?p=10316"},"modified":"2023-06-17T05:56:40","modified_gmt":"2023-06-17T12:56:40","slug":"watson-lake-the-sign-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/2023\/06\/17\/watson-lake-the-sign-forest\/","title":{"rendered":"Watson Lake & the Sign Forest"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>We drove west of town to stop for a few nights at Baby Nugget and StarLink saved us from being Internetless.\u00a0 There’s no cell service once you get outside any of the small towns along the highway, and Watson Lake was just like the others.\u00a0 We got there and realized there were no sewers at the campsites, any of them, so we headed over to the dump station to unload the tanks from 5 days of dry camping.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The next morning we headed into town to refill the fridge as Dawson Creek was the last place we picked up groceries.\u00a0 We stopped by the Sign Forest to see if \"\"<\/a>we could find our sign from last time, and we were able to find it almost immediately.\u00a0 Took a few pic’s, then headed over to the grocery store.\u00a0 It was much nicer than the last time we stopped there, well stocked with most foods,\u00a0 and we even got to pick up fresh cinnamon rolls (which seems to be some sort of competition along the Alcan!)<\/p>\n

The following morning Larry and I checked out the liquor store in town and picked up some Yukon Gold, one of our favorites from up north.\u00a0 It was the first time we had seen it on this trip.\u00a0 While we were there, we noticed a lot of Fantasy Tour folks driving into the Downtown RV campground, so we drove over to check it out.\u00a0\u00a0 Kathy and I had stayed there once and it was a place I would never go again.\u00a0 But it was the only campground with sewers for a long way in any direction, and you are squeezed in like sardines.\u00a0 We have never seen anywhere else that you are so close to the RV in the next site.\u00a0 Folks with slides practically touch the next coach’s slides.<\/p>\n

That evening Larry and Sue told us just how pitiful their Fantasy Tour experience had been when they attended the Balloon Fiesta with Fantasy.\u00a0 That sealed it for me, I will never use them, but I probably wouldn’t have anyway.<\/p>\n

We didn’t do much else in Watson Lake, and we probably should have only stayed 2 nights instead of the three we booked.<\/p>\n

The next morning we headed out for Teslin Lake, the halfway point to Whitehorse.<\/p>\n

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We drove west of town to stop for a few nights at Baby Nugget and StarLink saved us from being Internetless.\u00a0 There’s no cell service once you get outside any of the small towns along the highway, and Watson Lake was just like the others.\u00a0 We got there and realized there were no sewers at … <\/p>\n

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