Meziadin Lake Provincial Park

Day 65  Thursday, August 18, 2016         British Columbia, Meziadin Lake Provincial Park, site 20
304 miles towing            11.6 mpg

Before leaving this morning, we had a beautiful sunrise over Boya Lake.

Our destination today is Kinaskin Lake Provincial Park about 3 hours down the Cassiar Highway.  It’s known as a good trout fishing lake.  It depends on the weather if we will stay there or not.  We made our morning coffee and took the last of our jumbo blueberry muffins with us and left Boya Lake at 07:50.

The Cassiar Highway scenery wasn’t living up to its reputation up until now.  It started out sunny (sort of) but clouded up and we couldn’t see the mountain ranges.  The weather and scenery improved as we headed south.  The weather cleared and we could see some very high mountains with glaciers near the top.  It was very beautiful scenery when we could see through the tunnel of trees. 

We arrived at Kinaskin Lake P.P. at 11:00.  All the lakefront sites were taken.  The sites were really squeezed in tight and many of them were double sites.  It reminded us of a state park.  We saw none we liked and it was starting to rain.   However, the lake was beautiful, flat calm, and full of trout.  We decided to move on rather than stay in a crowded site in the rain.

We saw a fox right after we started out this morning. 

We saw moose warning signs and caribou warning signs but no moose or caribou.  We are also seeing more deciduous trees like birch, aspen, and poplar, and they are turning into their fall colours (Canadian spelling).  It’s also a lot warmer here, 75^o.

We arrived at Meziadin Lake P.P. at 16:00.  There were no sites available along the lake and we ended up in a gravel lot with a picnic table and firepit all side by side with no vegetation separating the sites.  It was one of the worse sites of the whole trip.  That’s what happens when you arrive late.  We weren’t happy with the site, but it was too late to move on.  We badly needed to do laundry and we were told we could do that at Meziadin Junction, about one mile back.  We unhooked but would do laundry in the morning before leaving.

A guy and his kid in a pickup truck took the site next to us and took over an hour to set up his tent.  He had no idea how to do it.  He wasn’t very friendly either.

We made dinner and took a campground walk.  The lake was beautiful, and very large.  It was surrounded by mountains.  The lakefront sites were all crowded, but there were some real nice ones.

The main reason we stayed here was we were going to use it as a base for a day trip to Stewart (BC)/Hyder (Alaska).  These two towns are always written together.  Stewart is the larger of the two.  They are at the end of a fjord from the Pacific Ocean.  We will go there tomorrow and take our trailer with us, then move on.