Friday, 15 June 2018 – Travel Day to Fort Nelson

Historic Kiskatinaw Timber Bridge
You can see the curving structure and timbers
Nice trail in the city of Fort Nelson

We left Dawson Creek about 9:30am and headed out on the Alaskan Highway (Hwy 97) toward Fort Nelson. Not far out of town is a small section of the Old Alaskan Highway. On this side road is the historic Kiskatinaw Bridge. The bridge is 531 foot long curved wooden timber bridge. The bridge is the only original timber bridge built on the original Alaskan Highway that remains intact and is still in use today. I heard from another traveler that the bridge took as long to build as the entirety of the Alaskan Highway. The drive was uneventful and took about 5 hours. We arrived about 3:30pm and I filled up with Diesel on way into town. I had made reservations at the Bluebell RV park. It is just a gravel parking lot with full hook-ups. The price was about $21 US so pretty affordable. There was a much nicer park called the Triple G but would have cost more than double and we didn’t feel it was worth it for one night. Right next door was a Bostons Pizza. The same restaurant chain we had in McKinney TX for a while. We ate an early dinner and the pizza was exceptional. After dinner we explored town and stopped at a city trail to let Maverick explore. He had a great time.