Grande Prairie and Fort Nelson...

Grande Prairie


Saying goodbye to Banff was tough because we have 3 days of camping, and the Juchems are not campers. Mr. Heater let us down, but after taking a look at the weather report, we discovered that the next two days, at least, are only going to be in the mid 50’s at night. We think we can handle that.

We took off from Banff and drove to Jasper along the Icefields Parkway. It is suppose to be one of the most beautiful drives, and it was! We thought it the best drive we have ever taken (except for maybe Medicine Bow in Wyoming). We stopped first at Lake Moraine, witch is a twin of Lake Louise. It was very nice.

We stopped lots of other places along the way. We saw some great falls and lots of snow. We took the Jasper Tramway up some mountain, and met some folks from Leeds, UK. They were very nice. We spent $115 Canadian for a tram ride, 10 minutes at the top, and a ride down: maybe 30 minutes total. We rolled into one of the nicest campgrounds we have been at - the Tamarack Campground in Grande Prairie. Alas, we were let down once again by Mr. Heater, as we were all cold again.

Fort Nelson...

The drive to Fort Nelson took us through Dawson Creek - Mile marker zero on the Alaskan Highway. The ride was very uneventful. Canada is huge! We have no pictures of our trip because nothing great happened. We knew this would be the booring part of the ride, and it was. We rolled into Fort Nelson at 4pm, ate, and set up camp. For some reason, the campground (Westend) is free. It also has very sad, but clean, bathrooms...