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Sign Post Forest is a collection of signs at Watson Lake, Yukon, Canada, and is one of the most famous of the landmarks along the Alaska Highway. It was started by a homesick GI in 1942. He was assigned light duty while recovering from an injury and erected the signpost for his hometown: Danville, Ill. 2835 miles.
Watson Lake is a town in Yukon, Canada, located at mile 635 on the Alaska Highway close to the British Columbia border. It had a population of 1,133 in 2021. It had a population of 1,133 in 2021. The town is named for Frank Watson, an American-born trapper and prospector, who settled in the area at the end of the 19th century.
The largest lake of Yukon is Kluane Lake at 409 km 2 (158 sq mi) located at an elevation of 781 m (2,562 ft). [1] Gallery.
The signpost on the top of Keno Hill showing distances to places around the world. [1] Keno City is located at Mile 69.1 of the Silver Trail, Yukon Highway 11. The British Yukon Navigation Company sternwheeler SS Keno is preserved in Dawson City and protected as a National Historic Site. The 2004 Kim Barlow album Luckyburden is about Keno City ...
Yukon includes more than 100 separate volcanic centres that have been active during the Quaternary. The Fort Selkirk Volcanic Field in central Yukon is the northernmost Holocene volcanic field in Canada, including the young active cinder cone, Volcano Mountain. A volcanic field in south-central Yukon is called Alligator Lake volcanic complex.
A newly released image showing the UFO that was shot down by a US fighter jet over Canada in 2023 has added more questions and uncertainty to the object floating over the Yukon.. The grainy ...
If you've had some cold weather recently, today's look back at history should make you shiver a little less. From Feb. 2-4, 1996, 29 years ago, a frigid arctic outbreak gripped the upper Midwest.
Yukon Highway 4, also known as the Robert Campbell Highway or Campbell Highway, is a road between Watson Lake, Yukon on the Alaska Highway to Carmacks, Yukon on the Klondike Highway. It is 583 km (362 mi) long and mostly gravel-surfaced. It serves the communities of Faro and Ross River and intersects the Canol Road near Ross River.