Carmacks, YT

Saturday, June 24, 2017

Today we move to Carmacks, YT. We woke to a bright sunny day. Hallelujah!

 It was so nice having sunshine this morning!


 We are traveling along side Fox Lake which is 40 miles long.
Look how blue the water is.

 We are at high point overlooking the Yukon River again.  The Yukon River starts in British Columbia. Then travels through the Yukon before it empties into the Bering Sea.

 We stopped at a rest stop that talked about a major forest fire that went through this area in 1998.  This is how much it has grown back in almost 20 years.

 Our next stop was at the Montague Roadhouse Historic Site. Above is the tour guide from a tour bus that had also stopped. Cute!

 This is only one of 52 roadhouses that were along this stage coach route in 1901.

 The roadhouses would provide fresh horses for the stage coach and food and overnight accommodations for passengers if they wanted.

The main building used to be 2 stories tall.

Look closely for the wood in the lower middle of the picture. It was probably an underground storage area for ice gathered in the winter and used for food storage in the summer.

The hillsides are uniquely rolling.  Gorgeous!

We made it to the township of Carmacks. The Hotel Carmacks has an RV park behind it.

 Above is our parking site.  It is close quarters and the park is full. Below is the Hotel Carmacks.

We ate lunch in the Gold Panner Restaurant.  Quaint.

After lunch we decided to drive around the town of Carmacks.

 This the Orloff King cabin. He was a prospector here.  After he died it was used by several other prospectors.

This is the Carmacks Roadhouse.  Above is the back and below is the front.

We think this was the stable for the roadhouse. Several teams of horses were kept available for the stage coaches.

Notice how the roofs were constructed so they could hold the weight of a sod roof.  See the grass growing on top of the roof?

Now we are headed to Five Fingers Rapids. Beautiful area!!

 We've seen these purplish flowers lining the highway a lot of today so had to stop and get a picture.

 This is the Five Finger Rapids where the Sternwheelers had to travel through in order to deliver the goods to Dawson City from Whitehorse.

The SS Klondike sternwheeler (steamship) was 210 feet long and 41 feet wide.  It was very tricky navigating to get through these rapids.

We got a kick out of the terminology on this side.  The bridge had to be "rehabilitated".  It must have been a bad bad bad bridge.  Hee Hee  See the bridge below.

This bridge spans the Yukon River.

Our RV park is right by the Yukon River.  This is a view from beside the river.

 These pretty little martins are everywhere here helping keep the mosquito population down.

 The clouds are so pretty in the sky.  Just had to share.

 There is a sand bar about 20 feet offshore in the river.  These seagulls were enjoying the water. It seems strange to see seagulls up here.

These pretty little flowering wildflowers were growing near the bench we were sitting on by the river.

We were trying to stay up and get a sunset picture.  But sunset is not until 12:01am...that's TOMORROW!  This is taken at 10:25pm.  We plan to get up early tomorrow because we have a long travel day.  So good night all!