brinasmemaw
southern Oklahoma
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Thanks folks for the info, it will help us figure out what we want to do. Trigley, as for specific interests...when something looks interesting we stop or when someone recommends a "must see" we see it. Thanks again. Becky
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Hjudge49
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Thanks, Joe, we are going back to Alaska next year and I thought that might be an interesting route. I assume it's user friendly for a 42' DP?
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joe b.
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Bob, I would think so. There a few small towns to go through but no serious mountain passes or anything like that. I saw a good number of good sized boats being hauled up from the Missoula area to Flathead and Whitefish lakes or the Hungry Horse Reservoir. Some of those rigs must have been over 50 ft for the tow vehicle and the trailer. A few heavy logging trucks and other heavy haulers, but not a problem that we have found. Lots of RV activity in that area of Montana.
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Stuart Florida
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Duke-44
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joe b. wrote:Bob, it was good the last time we went that way in 2009. Previous time, 2006, it was a construction mess. Hwy 93 is a two lane road and during the week, I have never seen much traffic on it, weekends can get a bit busy with folks heading up to the lakes for the weekend. We have stayed at the KOA up between Kalispell and Whitefish, real nice place. Last summer we stayed at the Spruce Campground on the River, in kalispell, then went on west into Idaho before crossing the border at Kingsgate. We wanted to run up the interior of BC which we had never done and ride as many of the BC ferry boats as we could find. Beautiful way to go as well. Normally I don't go that far west on the way up, but return by the way of Bellingham Washington but down the Fraser Valley.
We were trying to see how many of the hot springs as well in BC.
We have traveled this way on our way home from AK. My son just bought a dental practice in Kalispell, MT last year. So we are familiar with the Flathead Valley. Don't pass up the west side of Flathead Lake and Big Fork, MT if you go up that way. Turn east at Poulson, MT and go around the east side of the Flathead Lake to Big Fork, the little bay and town of Big Fork are really picturesque, then over and up thru Whitefish.
We also went thru Creston, BC and north to a small, beautiful town named Kaslo, that was having music festival on the side of a gorgious lake named Duncan. We drove our truck and 5er on and off several ferries that crossed the lakes. There was no charge as it is part of B.C.'s road system.
The wife wants to go back there as a destination this summer.
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jlmead9456
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I came across your post as I was preparing for our 4-month trip to Alaska this summer. We have not visited the Royal Tyrell Museum but it apparently is amazing. You might want to visit Drumheller and then stop at the Williston Lake & Dam near Cheywyn, BC to view their dinosaur tracks & lifesize diorama.
Here are some of the places we have enjoyed visiting during the past 14 years in our RV: Montana - Glacier NP (adjacent to Waterton NP in Alberta), and the National Bison Range near St. Ignatius (US-93, 30 miles north of I-90). Once in Alberta, n/b Hwy-2 will take you to Fort Macleod, where the RCMP Musical Ride is staged at the old fort. From there, w/b Hwy-3 will take you toward Crowsnest Pass, but a few miles north on FR-22 will take you to "Head Smashed In Buffalo Jump", which is a World Heritage Site.
We stayed at the Fantasy Hotel in the West Edmonton Mall in 1998 and the kids loved the Igloo Suite and the amusement park, but we are going to skip that on this trip. We will take Hwy-93 (The Icefields Parkway) between Banff and Jasper. This is an extremely scenic highway through the Canadian Rockies. Stop at the Visitor's Center near the Columbia Ice Field and take a ride up to the glacier in their Snow Bus. The divide at Sunwapta Pass is unique because water flows not only east into the Gulf of Mexico, and west into the Pacific, but also north into the Arctic Ocean. Bill & Jo-Anne Mead, Portland, OR.
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