Grandpa's Favourite RV Hotspots in the North
Issue: 2018-09-26, PHOTO: Adam Jones via Wikimedia Commons
To ‘Looks Like a Caribou’ and back - Part 6 of 6
Driving to Tuktoyaktuk, N.W.T. (located on Kugmallit Bay of the Beaufort Sea of the Arctic Ocean), is no big deal. Canadians have been doing it for many years on the annual winter ice roads that used to run down the Mackenzie Delta, from Inuvik... Read more
Don Davis/NASA, via Wikimedia Commons
Doomsday camping on Top of the World - Part 5 of 6
Grandpa, if a giant asteroid was on target to collide with Earth and everyone knew the exact day and time of the explosion to blow up the planet, where would you want to go camping for the last night? Read more
Credit: courtesy of the Government of Yukon
Old tramways and new ziplines on Windy Arm - Part 4 of 6
There is a precise and exact spot on the Alaska Highway between Watson Lake and Teslin, a little way northwest of Rancheria, where you cross the Continental Divide for the last time on your long journey to the northern hinterlands of our continent. Read more
Issue: 2018-07-18, PHOTO: courtesy of the Government of Yukon
Kathleen & Kokanee in Kluane - Part 3 of 6
All Yukon RV campgrounds were not created equal. The territorial government operates and services 42 campgrounds from Watson Lake to Rock River on the Dempster, and Snag Junction on the Alcan, but the Feds (Parks Canada) have just one, Kathleen... Read more
Issue: 2018-06-27, PHOTO: Jerry E and Roy Klotz via Wikimedia Commons
Atlin: Boom town to burnt down … to boom, burn, bust and boom again - Part 2 of 6
Of all the cities, towns and villages in northwestern Canada, Atlin's journey through the turbulent 20th century was more dramatic than most. It went from a golden boom town, in 1898, to a burnt-down town in 1901, then another boom until the fire... Read more
Issue: 2018-06-06, PHOTO: Rear Admiral Harley D. Nygren, U.S. Government
A Kenai kickoff to a new series - Part 1 of 6
There are so many good places in Alaska to go RV camping; it's a bit of a fool's errand to select just one to kick off our new six-part summer series on RV Hotspots in Alaska, Yukon, northern B.C. and N.W.T. That is the challenge at hand—a dirty... Read more