Sign Post Forest

Our hosts at the Baby Nugget RV park, Linda and Scott Goodwin, invited our caravan group to go on a nature walk this morning - did someone say "walk"!! - so, of course, we joined in.

We were invited to meet at the Ore House.

It rained over night so everyone was dressed for the wet weather.

Linda had lots of stories to tell us about her family's development of the Baby Nugget RV park as well as hunting and wild-life encounters in the Yukon.

One of the lakes on their land viewed from the trail along a ridge.

Our group enjoying the hike.

Frederick at the lake. That's a little island, with fir trees, in the middle of the lake.

When the rest of the group turned around to walk back, Frederick and I continued on a little way to another lake.

When we got back to the campground, we had this view of the caravan.

During World War II and the construction of the Alaska Highway in 1942, the American Army posted directions to various vital points of interest in the Yukon and then added New York, Chicago, and Tokyo. A homesick G.I., Carl Lindley, was working on damaged signposts and, taking the direction to heart, set up his own signpost with the distance to his Illinois hometown. The single signpost has grown to hundreds of posts naming places all around the world. 

Sign Post Forest in Watson Lake, Yukon.

Yes, there appear...

hundreds of signs in forest.

Frederick and JJ scouting out a location to post a sign from this year's caravan. 

JJ pointed out the sign from the Alaskan caravan the led in 2014.

After, we went across the road to the Northern Lights Center for a program on the aurora borealis. Sandy, JJ's wife, told us that when we come back to the Baby Nugget RV park September, on our way back, we may see the aurora borealis. They saw it for about 10 minutes in 2014.