Little Salmon Lake, Yukon - Pelly Crossing, Yukon

Day 14 – Friday, August 12 2005
Little Salmon Lake, Yukon – Pelly Crossing, Yukon
Miles Driven: 124

Leaving Little Salmon Lake, we continued on the Campbell Highway, a good portion of it paved. As we got closer to the Klondike Highway junction the Yukon River came into view. We stopped several times for photos including one spot (near this photo) where a steamboat blew up and burned in 1906 after a crew member accidentally fired a shot into a cargo of gunpowder, killing six men. We reached Carmacks feeling very proud that we had survived the Campbell Highway. After re-fueling we traveled the Klondike Highway north to Pelly Crossing. We camped for the night at a campground along the Pelly River. This was a strange campground because it looked almost deserted, and there was no place to pay a fee. For a while we thought we would be the only ones there, but as the evening grew older, other campers joined us. I felt a little uncomfortable about the surroundings, but the night passed without incident.