Day 86 – June 4 – Teslin Lake Campground

We are currently at Teslin Lake, a Yukon government campground on the shores of the lake.  The campground is much like the British Columbia campground except all the Yukon parks cost $12 a night.  In British Columbia we paid from eleven dollars a night up to $24 per night.  The park offers a place to stop, not much more except free firewood and a picnic table.

We were one of the last to leave the campground this morning.  We have been taking it easy, usually leaving between 9 and 10 each morning.  Everyone else seems to be in a much bigger rush.  Several of the campers were stopped at the Signpost Forest when we passed by to get gas.

I don’t know how many ended up passing us as we drove along at 40 to 50 miles per hour.  At one point a rig flew past us and then maybe 20 minutes later we were about three cars behind them at a road construction point.  The road was in bad shape and they were removing the pavement, so we drove about 5 miles on gravel that had been watered down to keep the dust down.

The drive here was somewhat boring, the scenery was not really pretty but we did have snow-covered mountains that we drove through.

At one point we stopped at the Rancheria Falls and walked about 15 minutes to the falls.  There were two areas that had small falls, but the force was amazing.  The water was clear even though it didn’t appear that it would be – it had a rusty color to it but you could see the bottom were the water calmed down after the falls.

We stopped at the Continental Divide; something we have crossed several times in our various travels.  But this one was different from the others we crossed in the States – this one the water goes into either the Pacific or the Arctic Ocean.

This park has 27 campsites and I would guess that there are maybe 6 or 8 in use, not many people here.  I guess the others either require hookups or went on to Whitehorse for the night.

It just started to rain.  Earlier the lake was calm and reflected the clouds.  Now I see whitecaps on the lake.