We left off last time on July 31, camped at Engineer Creek at Kilometer (Km) 194 on the Dempster Highway in the Yukon Territory. A long drive the next day, with some rain, took us past the Arctic Circle and through the fourth bioregion along the highway, the Eagle Plains (Km 248 – 410). These […]
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The Dempster Highway (Part 1)
We crossed from Alaska back into the Yukon Territory on July 27, via the very scenic Top of the World Highway, which provides good access to high, dry tundra. Just before reaching the Yukon River, we visited Orchid Acres, a phenomenal protected area containing thousands of Spotted Lady’s-Slippers, Cypripedium guttatum. Like the plants we had […]
