Well, Downtown RV park in Watson Lake worked out OK. Not a garden spot, but it was close to everything (stores, entertainment, and the Sign Post Forest). It is one of the spots that the caravans use for a pit stop, so the place is busy. The guy that runs it is known as the "Crazy Scotsman". A local character I guess. The park itself is a dirt lot with hookups, but it works for what you need. Not ADA accessible though. There is nice park across the street with a large lake that has a walk way around the entire lake. It about 3km all the way around. Diane walked Heidi around it a few times and had no issues.
We pulled out the same time as the Caravan again today. And as usual, the first part of the drive was spent hopscotching slower vehicles. I don't speed, just set the cruise at the posted limit, 100 kph (62 mph) but a lot of the Caravan folks are happy at 45 -50 mph. The Caravan stopped at Teslin, so after we passed that spot it was free sailing. The Telus aircard did not work at all in Watson Lake. There was plenty of cell signal available, but the aircard would not connect. The campground did have WiFi, but as usual, the more folks in the campground, the slower it got. I was able to get Direct TV on the roof mounted dish. The elevation was down to 18 degrees though.
We pulled into Whitehorse about 2 PM and easily got a spot. We picked the Pioneer RV park due to reviews on the rvparkreviews web site. The park has diesel and gas available at pumps when you first pull in right across from the office. So I went to the pumps while Diane went to check us in. The diesel price was $1.33 liter ($5.03 US gal). If you were staying in the park as we were going to, you got a .03 cent discount per liter so it came out to $4.92 a US gallon. Then we paid for a 2 night's stay with Good Sam discount that came out to $27 a night for full hook ups. Couldn't get Direct TV here though, the park sits low off of the road and is surrounded by tall trees. The bathrooms and the laundry room has ADA accessible ramps. However there are about 1 1/2 thresholds to get over to get into the facility. There are no ADA specific spaces in the RV park, but the ground is flat and hard packed gravel.
The park also has a nice RV wash available with two spray wands and a wash brush. Three minutes is one Loonie (one Canadian dollar coin). It is on a cement pad with a nice wide drain in the center. I choose to spray down the rig and Jeep before we went to the site to blow the mud off. It had just finished raining so the rig was caked heavy. I didn't scrub it down, so now it just looks like it needs washed. Before it was horrible. The cardboard tape job on the Jeep window is still holding up I was happy to see. There is a Jeep dealer here in Whitehorse that I am checking to see if they can to the window repair. If not I will wait until Alaska. The Telus aircard is back working like a champ, so no campground WiFi to deal with here, although they do have it.
Sometimes we create our own problems, as I did recently. I wanted to re-calibrate our Power Gear hydraulic leveling system as it was not setting up level when I deployed the jacks at a campground. I downloaded the instructions from the Power Gear web site on how to do it. After going through the steps which were not difficult, I finished up only to learn that I did something and now the air bags were not dumping when the jacks were deployed. I fooled around with it, but could not get it working right. I sent an e-mail to Power Gear and they got back to me pretty quickly. They gave me the right combination of steps and now all is well with the levelers again.
Here is a few pics of recent happenings. The sign post forest in Watson Lake was pretty cool. One of the signs that I did find was from LAPD, Newton Division where I did probation so many years ago. And the ill fated Jeep window. And we aren't even in Alaska yet...
