Category: British Columbia

From the Blue Cedars Campground in Prince George, the next stop was one I’d been looking forward to since a friend from high school who lives in Williams Lake took me there last Fall. Farwell Canyon had pretty much everything that my perfect RV boondocking site requires. “Boondocking” is...

Saturday was going to be a really easy day. The only solid plan was to have a good look at the Railway & Forestry Museum in Prince George, but I was open to other options as they were presented. The Crooked River Rest Area was empty when we arrived,...

As I write this post on Sunday, May 1st, I’m camped in the wilderness an hour west of Williams Lake, with no cell, no Internet – not even any radio stations. I won’t have Internet access to post this until I reach Bella Coola on Tuesday or Wednesday. It’s...

It’s been a busy couple of days in Dawson Creek, and I could easily stay another day. But, Tumbler Ridge beckons, so we’ll be on the road this morning. I mainly want to tell you about the driving route that I created after noticing that there are none for...

I’m home now, but I spent 3 days over the past weekend with my Dad in Kelowna. Direct flights on Air North (with a short stop in Vancouver each direction) make the trip extremely easy now. Climbing out over the Yukon River just after our takeoff at 5:10. With...

BC is world famous for its vast wilderness, and for some of the residents of that wilderness, including the grey wolf, Canis lupus, often called the timber wolf. Although there are approximately 8,500 wolves in the province, wolf sightings are fairly rare and usually very brief. I consider myself...

Anyone who enjoys visiting ghost towns can keep busy exploring and researching for years in BC. Wikipedia lists 165 ghost towns in BC, although their criteria for what qualifies as a ghost town is very loose. In any list of of BC’s ghosts towns, the furthest north and one...

This article was originally written for the Destination BC Blog, and was re-posted here under the same date when that blog was closed. The coast of BC, from the sea to the eastern side of the Coast Mountains, is a region so rugged that it needs to be seen...

BC has endless opportunities for epic road trips of any length you choose, with virtually any combination of scenery you could want, from desert to rainforest. I spend a lot of time planning major road trips, some of which happen and some of which don’t. Although I’m still planning...

Wednesday, October 7th, day 29 of the trip, began early at our site at the Bear River RV Park in Stewart. I wanted to have a quick look at the Salmon Glacier, then be on the road for home. By 08:00 we had crossed the unguarded border into Alaska,...