Mosquitoes! I swear they seem to enjoy biting me and leave my mom alone. Thankfully the kids seem to have avoided being bitten. I guess I put bug spray on them better than myself. Anyhoo, let me catch you up on what we have been doing. We have 3 more campgrounds that we have visited.
Welcome to the Yukon!
June 30 – The first one is Nugget City outside of Watson Lake, YT and we do not have plans to return. This is because I think it’s horrible to charge $10 for 5 hours of wifi that you can only get by the office while you are getting eaten by mosquitoes. The bathrooms were great with very hot showers ($1 for 2.5 minutes) and the laundry room was clean (we didn’t use them though). The person who checked us in was very friendly, our water & electric only site was easy to get into and was level. We even had a few trees. There is some noise from the busy road it’s off of, but with a/c I didn’t notice it while sleeping. Fuel was available and the restaurant was excellent. The cook even came out and joked with my kids about ketchup being a vegetable. It’s ok for an overnight but next time we will try the Downtown RV Park. No pictures of the campground as we completely forgot to take one.
At a downtown gift store
July 1 – We originally were going to be at Nugget City for two days but only stayed one. We headed to Whitehorse without reservations and our top two choices of campgrounds were full. Instead we stayed at Mountain Ridge Motel & RV Park. We stayed here two days as we still hadn’t gotten to our laundry. You are pretty much parked in the gravel lot of the hotel. I was able to easily back into my site which was very level . The first site we were going to use would have required us to run our full hookups to the other side of our rig. Our second site was much easier with everything on the driver side. The staff were very friendly and we would stay here again.
Bears, Oh my!
July 3 – Next up we headed to Destruction Bay, YT. We were very excited to see our first grizzly. Then we drove a mile down the road and saw our second one. An hour later and we saw another one. Later on we drove to Destruction Bay Lodge and when we drove past the campground we decided to keep going. We wanted something more than just a gravel lot. We ended up in White River, YT and stayed at Discovery Yukon. We will definitely return. We had 30 amp full hook ups, on our graveled level site. We loved the nightly campfire where you can chat with your neighbors while your roast marshmallows. They usually drive you around on one of the military vehicles they have there (Brian loved seeing those). We all look forward to staying here on our return trip from Alaska.
Later Y’all