Monday, July 27
Today we entered the Yukon Territory in Watson Lake. We learned that the Yukon Territory is home to 37,000 people and 27,000 of them live in White Horse. The beauty of the Rockies just goes on and on. Wowza!!! Unbelievable. We continued to see Bison meandering along the road and another herd resting in the ditch.
All along the Alaska Highway from May until September (according to a sign we saw in a park) is a beautiful wild flower called Fireweed. It is the provincial flower of the Yukon and it filled the ditches today. So pretty.
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We also stopped at a place called Rancheria Falls Provincial Recreation Area and took a ten-minute walk to the Falls. Along the way to the Falls were all kinds of beautiful mosses. The girls made terraria in the jam jars that we’ve emptied of yummy jam.
The other memorable thing from today was a stop at the Sign Post Forest in Watson Lake. Back when the Alaska Highway was being built in 1942. An American Serviceman in the U.S. Corps of Engineers who was helping to build the Highway was injured and sent to the Army Aid Station in Watson Lake to recuperate. While he was there his commanding officer asked him to repaint the directional sign into Watson Lake. This Private Carl Lindley was homesick and lonesome, so he added a sign from his hometown of Danville, Illinois to the Watson Lake post to remind of him home. Today, the sign post forest has over 72,000 signs. It is a lot of fun and you will inevitably see signs from places you’ve been and possibly even lived. There are licenses plates, family name signs, signs people have made commemorating their Alaska Highway adventure. If you intend to travel past Watson Lake, be sure to plan ahead and bring a sign of your choosing to add to the mix. We wish we had. Some of the signs we saw that might be familiar to some of you are: Wilmington, NC, Muskegon, MI, Bruce, WI, Edina, MN, Bloomer, WI, and a place called Paisley. Seeing these signs made us think of all of you.
We once visited a place in SD named Paisley…maybe that was the Lake County Community on the sign, but lakes aren’t too common in SD. What an interesting story – and unique ‘forest’ of signposts! Thanks for the photos.
So, there are more signs in this one small area than there are people in the entire Yukon Terrritory? This is entertaining to me. Also, I was curious and googled the population of Chapel Hill. 60,000. So the town of chapel hill has significantly more people than an entire Canadian province. This is also amusing.