A Couple of Spots in the Trees and a Bridge in Canada

We left our first Canadian stop and drove up to Edmonton. We stayed at a commercial campground which was just okay. We got there late in the day and left the next morning. Our next stop on the 4th of June was Kiskatinaw Provincial Park just north of Dawson Creek. Dawson Creek is the start of the Alaskan Highway. We had stopped there on our last trip up here and so didn't stop again. The campground sites are well separated by spruce and poplar trees and some are on the river. The first picture was of a truck that had overturned on the road in. Someone was checking to see if anyone was still in it. Fortunately, we found out later, the driver was okay and someone was on the way to get it off the road.

All the riverside spots were taken. We first picked a large site and had pulled in when the ranger came over and said someone had just asked him to save the spot in this first come first serve campground as they would be back shortly. He said he would call them to see if they wanted a different spot but we said that wasn't necessary. We found another spot that was actually a double spot but no one else took the other spot and so it turned out okay. We could just get a peak of the water and there was a small path where we could walk down to the water's edge. We could see a peak of the Kiskatinaw Bridge which is the only original wood bridge still in use. Travelers often take a detour to drive across the bridge on their way north.

Bridge just below the tree tops

We took a drive in the Jeep to take some more pictures of the bridge.

Below is a picture of us in the motorhome as we crossed the wood bridge on our way out.

We had a long day's journey to our next stop with lots of beautiful scenery.

We made a stop  in Fort Nelson to do a little shopping. Joe was in the zone driving and so we continued on with an audio book to listen to helping out. We arrived at Tesla River Campground Regional Park in late afternoon. It was a former provincial park with nice sized spots again with lots of trees separating the sites.

We took another nice walk along another pretty river.

This was another one night stay. Another summer we would like to just do a Canadian trip up this way to stay longer at some of the great little spots we have been finding up here. Our next stop is one of our very  favorite campgrounds. Maybe number one or at least in the top 5. Below are a few pictures on the way to Muncho Lake. More on that in the next post.

This Stone Sheep was the first wildlife we have seen as we get close to Muncho Lake.

Just a note, I am just catching up on a couple of weeks of posts. We are now in the Fairbanks area and finally have good internet so I can blog. So many places advertise they have wi fi and then either say it's not working or only can be used in the office or for a short time use only. We don't remember this from the time we were here before. Oh well, it is nice not to know what crazy things are going on in the world for a little while. We have been watching the second season of House of Cards. Love this series.

Writing-On-Stone PP, our first stop in Canada

We left Wyoming with an one night stay in Montana at Dick's RV Park a commercial park in Great Falls.

WE had an easy border crossing with 20 questions but mostly about guns, or any gun related products. Gracie, our GPS guided us to our next stop through some unpaved roads. We later had to check the settings and checked unpaved roads to be avoided. Joe had unchecked it when we were doing some off roading and forgot to recheck it. It wasn't a bad drive but we were a little nervous not knowing if the roads would get back. Writing-On-Stone Providential Park, in Aden, Alberta, is a very nice park in a really interesting area.  It is in the largest area of protected prairie in the Alberta park system. On the Milk River, there are many aboriginal rock cravings and paintings that are also protected. We got a nice spot in the campground with no one around us.

The day we got there it was actually on the warm side. We drove over to a trail head to check out the hoodoos and other rock formations. They don't have the coloring of the hoodoos of Bryce Canyon but are still pretty impressive.

The trail leads to some petroglyths of a Battle Scene that are protected by a fence. They have faded so much you can hardly see anything and we couldn't even get any good pictures even by enlarging them on the computer. Below shows what it looked like at one time.

Anyway, it was a nice walk in an interesting area.

It was a little hot and Savannah was happy to find a little shade to rest.  We would have liked to take the Hoodoo Trial on Tuesday but it rained all day. Yes, more rain. Yikes!! We did drive into the nearest town, Milk River, to change some US dollars into Canadian money. We needed to do this anyway but especially as we had a credit card issue. WE had gone to the visitor center to get wi fi to check email. We found that we had several charges on one of our cards that weren't ours. In fact, they were in the Los Angeles area and just went through the day we got to Canada. We had just used it for our camp fees and wondered if there was a connection. However the person Joe talked to when canceling the card, said it was probably due to the Home Depot situation from last year where a bunch of credit card numbers were stolen. They were just starting to see the numbers being used illegally. Oh joy. Well, instead of our back road travels, credit card problem and more rain we still liked our first stop on our adventure to Canada and Alaska. We are now at a  campground for an one night stay in Edmonton after a day that included more rain and then will have another long day drive to the Dawson Creek area in BC. No rain here in Edmonton and hope that continues for awhile on our drives and stays as we head north. Stay tuned.