Grande Prairie

We get up early and are gone by 8:00am, speedy for us. Tried to get a propane fill in town, but no luck due to a malfunctioning machine.

Waiting for the “Rocky Mountaineer”

Another quick stop for another Scone, but wasn’t as good as yesterday’s.

Our main event today is driving up to Miette Hot Springs.  The hot springs are a couple of swimming pools where the water is cooled down to 105F from the 122F water that bubbles up our of the ground. Beautiful location amongst the cloud shrouded mountains.

Then we head for a long afternoon drive to Grande Prairie on Highway 40, “The Scenic Route to Alaska”. Some very remote stretches with no Cell connection.  We get a lot of heavy rain so the scenery was wasted. Lots of logging and pulp mills. As we get closer to Grande Prairie there are lots of gas and oil wells.

We are surprised how large of a city Grande Prairie is.  After a stop at Costco we head to “Great Northern Casino” to sign in to a free overnight in their parking lot. Since it is late and rainy, we don’t want to bother with an RV park.  After we sign in we plan to have dinner at the Casino, Unfortunately they only have one restaurant and Thursday night is Karaoke night.  The loud and off key singing would not make for a great dining experience so we have dinner back in the RV.