North to Alaska and Back
Good news! We had the rv serviced this morning and the issue with the tow lights was resolved. We are once again legal!
This was our first two-night stop since we started to travel, so we had some time in the afternoon to explore. Our original plan had been to go to the Edmonton West Mall, the largest in North America, but the day was so beautiful, we went to Elk Island National Park instead.
Elk Island manages Canada’s conservation recovery herds for plains & wood bison . The park is fully fenced. Currently, there are more bison at Elk Island than existed in the whole of North America in 1890.
After a picnic lunch, we drove the Bison Loop Road and were lucky to see a wood bison, the largest land mammal in North America. Both Sandy & Pilgrim went ballistic when they saw the bison, but the bison didn’t seem to care. He was busy scratching his head against a tree.
Next we hiked the beaver pond trail. Jay did pretty well with his cane and old Pilgrim hung in there for the 3.5 km hike. We didn’t see any beavers, but we saw several beaver lodges. We also saw a white pelican, which was a surprise.
Then we walked the short Living Water boardwalk trail. It was more like a floating dock trail and both dogs, but Pilgrim especially, had difficulty managing the spaces between the docks. At the end of the day we had two tired dogs.
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15 Apr 2020
Day 11 - Elk Island National Park
June 30, 2017
Good news! We had the rv serviced this morning and the issue with the tow lights was resolved. We are once again legal!
This was our first two-night stop since we started to travel, so we had some time in the afternoon to explore. Our original plan had been to go to the Edmonton West Mall, the largest in North America, but the day was so beautiful, we went to Elk Island National Park instead.
Elk Island manages Canada’s conservation recovery herds for plains & wood bison . The park is fully fenced. Currently, there are more bison at Elk Island than existed in the whole of North America in 1890.
After a picnic lunch, we drove the Bison Loop Road and were lucky to see a wood bison, the largest land mammal in North America. Both Sandy & Pilgrim went ballistic when they saw the bison, but the bison didn’t seem to care. He was busy scratching his head against a tree.
Next we hiked the beaver pond trail. Jay did pretty well with his cane and old Pilgrim hung in there for the 3.5 km hike. We didn’t see any beavers, but we saw several beaver lodges. We also saw a white pelican, which was a surprise.
Then we walked the short Living Water boardwalk trail. It was more like a floating dock trail and both dogs, but Pilgrim especially, had difficulty managing the spaces between the docks. At the end of the day we had two tired dogs.
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Day 1: Harrisburg, PA to West Branch SP, Ohio
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Day 2: On to Pokagon SP, Indiana
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Days 3 and 4 On to Illinois and Wisconsin
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Days 5, 6 & 7: On to Maple Grove, Mn and Fargo and Minot, North Dakota
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Days 8 & 9 - On to Saskatchewan,
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Day 10 - On to Alberta
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Day 11 - Elk Island National Park
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Days 12 and 13 - On to Dawson Creek, British Columbia
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Day 14 - Alaska Highway to Fort Nelson, BC
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Day 15 - On to Muncho Lake, BC
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Day 16 - On to Watson Lake, Yukon
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Day 17 - On to Whitehorse, Yukon
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Day 18 - Whitehorse, Yukon
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Day 19 - Whitehorse, Yukon
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Day 20: Klondike Hwy to Dawson City
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Day 21: Dawson City
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Day 22: Dawson City
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Day 23: On to Chicken, Alaska!
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Day 24 - On to Kenny Lake
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Day 25: Wrangell-St. Elias NP
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Day 26: Kenny Lake Area
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Day 27: Richardson Hwy to Valdez AK
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Days 28 & 29:Valdez
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Days 30 & 31: On to Anchorage
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Day 32: Katmai National Park
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Day 33: Lake Clark National Park
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Day 34: On to Talkeetna
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Days 35 - 38 Denali National Park
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Days 39, 40 and 41 - Fairbanks AK
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Days 42, 43 & 44 - Bettles, AK
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Days 45 & 46 - Tok to Kluane Lake
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Days 47, 48, 49 - Kluane Lake to Boya Lake
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Day 50 - Boya Lake to Iskut, BC
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Days 51 & 52 - Stewart British Columbia and Hyder Alaska
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Days 53, 54, 55 - Smithers to Jasper Park
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Day 58 - The Icefields Parkway
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Days 56 & 57 - Jasper National Park
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Days 59 and 60 - Banff NP
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Days 61, 62 63 - Banff, Alberta to Minot, North Dakota
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Days 64, 65, 66 - North Dakota to Minnesota
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Day 67 - Duluth, Minnesota
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Days 68, 69,& 70 - To Mackinac Island
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Days 71 thru 78, The Last Chapter!
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