Day Two - Summit Lake Campground
On day two of our journey, we left Fox Creek bright and early and headed northwest toward Grande Prairie and then onto Dawson Creek, which is the start of the Alaska Highway. The road was built by the U.S. Military during WW2 and opened to the public in 1948. It was originally about 2700km long, but over the years, with improvements, has been shortened to 2232km. It was known, way back when, to be an extremely challenging drive, but has since been completely paved. It is a very scenic and easy drive, provided you are always surrounded with courteous drivers, which is rarely the case no matter where you go. There was a fair amount of traffic, and we later heard that this has been one of the busiest years for Northern travel that people can remember. Anyway, we stopped for a family photo at the famous sign in Dawson Creek and toured around the nearby art gallery and Visitor Center. We put on 917 kilometers in total on Day 2 by the time we stopped at Summit Lake Campground for t...