Stop #2 - Alaska Caravan

We left Dawson Creek, BC (Stop #1), this morning and enbarked on one of our longest towing days - just about 300 miles to Fort Nelson, BC (yes, named for British Lord Horatio Nelson who won the Battle of Trafalgar).

The first stop of interest along the Alaska Highway is this curved wooden bridge.

To get to the wooden bridge, we had to take a short byway on the original historic highway.

There is a by-pass that most vehicles and trucks use so we were able to take our time and explore its unique architecture. This 531 ft. long structure is the only original timber bridge built along the Alaskan Highway that is still in use today.

The bridge passes over the Kiskatinaw River.

Beautiful Airstream on a beautiful bridge fairly early on a beautiful morning - about 8:30 a.m.

For the first fifty miles, or so, there was almost constant road construction - evidence that the Alaskan highway is still being built.

There were several sections of the highway with fairly steep grades - here is a 10% grade.

Inching our way down the grade with clouds filling the valley below.

Bridge across Peace River at Taylor BC. Steel truss structure which replaced a suspension bridge that collapsed on October 15, 1957.

View from the bridge of a gas pipeline 670 km (420 miles) long delivering natural gas from the Dawson Creek area to LNG facility near Kitmat, BC.

The second half of the drive left civilization behind and we began to enter a more isolated region. Sometimes we would travel with other Airstreams and...

sometimes we travelled by ourselves.

The north woods with tall, skinny, pointy trees.

The road goes ever on until...

we crossed the Nelson River into Fort Nelson.

At the Triple"G" Hideaway RV park - Airstreams every where you look.