Yukon RVing: Tatchun Creek Campground
We pulled out of Dawson City at about 12:30 on Wednesday (June 17), headed back towards Whitehorse, though we weren’t finished yet. Cathy just had to be at a meeting in Whitehorse on Friday, then we go get back on the road for the weekend.
Cathy and I talked about a few ways of dealing with it, and finally decided to look at Tatchun Creek Campground north of Carmacks for tonight, go home Thursday afternoon, and then on Friday morning I’d take the rig to a campground east of Whitehorse where she could join me after work that evening.
As we drove south on the North Klondike Highway, we met a lot of motorcycles heading towards Dawson. I hadn’t heard about it, but it turns out that most were probably going for the Dust 2 Dawson event which was being held the next 2 days. I haven’t seen any attendance numbers, but it was in the hundreds, no doubt. When I shot this photo, we were stopped by road construction, waiting for a pilot car.
There was a great deal of road resurfacing being done in half a dozen places, and we pounded across some very rough stretches. There’s no question that the highway needed some TLC – it was getting to be very rough.
At 2:30, we stopped at this rest area along the Stewart River at Km 357.3, just north of Stewart Crossing, for a long break. Although there was no place to run Monty and Bella, they’re always happy just for a walk.
Tatchun Creek Campground is at Km 382.4 of the highway. We decided that it would suit our purposes well enough, and were settled in by about 5:00, having put on 336 km (209 miles) during the day. Tatchun only has 12 sites, and although the government claims that there are 4 pull-throughs, that’s a stretch – 3 at the most, but 2 would be my assessment.
Site #10 looks okay in the photo above, but not so much when you see that it’s just a wide spot on the road that circles the park, and our 50-foot-long rig just barely fit. Site 11 is the only site that most people would call a pull-through. The campground only had a couple of empty sites that night, and was very quiet. Cathy mentioned the highway noise a few times, but there was little traffic and I didn’t find it obtrusive at all.
We had a very pleasant evening. The forest is lovely, there were lots of flowers and squirrels, and the kids enjoyed some degree of freedom. Monty claimed his chair for a while, but as he often does, let us know when it was bedtime by digging a nest in a willow bush nearby 🙂
Thursday was yet another lazy morning – my schedule in particularly is very differen when we’re in the RV. We got back on the road for the final 222 km home at about 11:00. I had a few things to buy to restock, but would be back on the road in less than 24 hours, for the 90-minute drive east on the Alaska Highway to Squanga Lake Campground.
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