Watson Lake Hotel

Aside from staying in a hotel with a lobby that smelled like sour milk, Watson Lake was really only as impressive as its main (read as only) attraction,  the inimitable sign forest.  My mom tells me there is a really great visitor center in ...

... and streams that are teaming with wildlife. Moose, deer, porcupine, bision, black bear and to top it off, just before getting to Watson Lake our first grizzly, though a yearling, it still charged and bit the car behind us. As I was shooting pics from ...

The road between Watson Lake and Fort Nelson is chip and seal with more chip than seal. about as smooth as #2 grit sandpaper the bike ride was about a 2.1 on the richtor scale. We saw a lot of wildlife along the road about 40 Bison, 6 or 8 mt,goats, ...

... can sell them the buns!  At least that's what he said.........the truth is he hasn't gotten his gas delivery for spring. At Watson Lake they have over 67,000 signs from all over the world that visitors have nailed to posts in their park.  We've ...

... hehe.  Tuesday 9/20, was an absolutely amazing day for me, even though I was traveling most of the day.  I left Watson Lake, BC and headed south ( yes I am finally headed south) and passed through Muncho Pass, Laird River Provincial Park, ...

... typing right now and it's 12:45 am and still faintly light outside. I love it although it's bloody cold! I've stopped in Watson Lake YT and will be taking the Cassiar Highway south in the morning. It's supposed to be one of the best drives ...

... middle of the forest. I then went to the activity building a bloged a little before we packed up and moved on. The Alaska Hwy. from Watson Lake to Teslin was a nice one with just a few gravel areas. One truck went by so fast that we could not see from the ...

... co-joined to make a king size bed. The hotel we stayed at was a lodge and it was the old Air Force Barracks in Watson Lake. This barracks for pilots while the Alcan was being built was transformed into this lodge. The lodge was really nice and clean, had ...

I stayed up late last night talking to some people I met at the hotel.  My flu shot a few days ago is still making me sleep a lot.  The combination resulted in a late start today.  I fueled up in Whitehorse and headed down the ALCAN toward ...

I woke up in Watson Lake to see that my tent was no longer waterproof. What a bummer. I packed up, angry, grabbed a coffee from town, and parted ways far before the gas station opened. I camped for free. Thanks. I headed onwards towards BC. Most of the ...

 Sunday Morning, after we packed up, we left our hotel and on the way out of Anchorage, we filled up on gas. Then we headed for Tok. The ride to Tok was, for the most part, boring. We seen no wildlife. There were severel construction stops, but we ...

    Hi all, On the road for 11 hours,the sites we seen was something else, The Mountains, some w     with snow others with different frolic, I never seen anything like it before, and we seen all kind of animals as ...

... station headed on to Baker St. We feel Baker St is the most awesome of London's tube stations. Why? Elementry my dear Watson, it is because of all the Sherlock holmes tiles and statues around the place. An entire station devoted to a fictional character, ...

... willing to pay a little extra for ambiance – what about you? Secure in the knowledge that we have a spare tire again, we leave Watson Lake for our destination at Liard Hot Springs, but when we get to Liard it is raining and we decide not to stop. ...

... Yukon campgrounds are inexpensive ($12) and provide free firewood. Dawson City now the new most expensive gas location at $1.59/L. Watson Lake rec centre has the best showers on the whole trip; for $3 you get a towel, sauna and great ...

We are at 2840 kms on the van and have just crossed into the Yukon at Watson Lake.  You actually criss-cross the border with B.C. 7 times but who's counting.  I am glad we decided to not stay another night in Liard.  It's lovely but we were ...

... signs that cover this property at the local visitor centre. I grabbed a quick dinner from the kitchen at the back of a gas station in Watson Lake and continued on my way. I don't think I did much more sightseeing on this day other than to stop and look ...

... up again around about the 10th of August. We left Dawson City and drove along the Alcan Highway where we stopped at a place called Watson Lake. This has been made famous by the 'Watson Lake Sign Forest'. In the middle of a town are thousands and thousands ...