Whitehorse and Watson Lake in the Yukon Territory

Whitehorse and Watson Lake August 28^th and 29^th

We stayed just one night in Dawson City and took the Klondike Highway  which followed the Yukon River down in to Yukon’s capital city of Whitehorse. Whitehorse was also booming during the 1898 Klondike gold rush. Once the Skagway and Yukon railroad was completed, this town became the connecting point between the trains and the Yukon River Paddle Wheelers.  It is now a city of over 27,000 with small town charm and a lovely waterfront walk. The  Yukon Highway views are below.

Watson Lake

The following day we continued down the scenic Alcan highway  to the Watson Lake where the famous Watson Lake Sign Post Forest sits. It started out with a lonely U.S. soldier posting a signpost to his home town in 1942. Today there are over 77,000 signs hammered to row upon row of posts. We had brought license plate from our home town of Bluffton with us, but decided to additionally buy some wood from the hardware store and make one of our own to hang up.

If you ever go there, ours is just slightly to the right of the Arch Way on the first row  of signs about knee high.

We were lucky enough to find an empty spot. The Visitor Center folks take care of the signs and never remove one unless it has deteriorated so badly that you can’t read it any more. I think ours will last a few years anyway.