Tag: Historic Sites

Visiting the Fascinating Bighorn Medicine Wheel in Wyoming

One of the best things to do in northwestern Wyoming, other than visiting Yellowstone National Park. Grand Tetons National Park, or the under-visited Bighorn Canyon National Recreation Area, is to visit the Bighorn Medicine Wheel, high up on a mountain on the western side of the Bighorn Mountains. What is the Bighorn Medicine Wheel? There …

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North Pacific Cannery National Historical Site (Overfishing on the Skeena River)

On my big road trip to Alaska, I decided to make a detour to Prince Rupert.  I had met some nice people from Prince Rupert at the Fountain of Youth Spa on the Salton Sea in California.  Prince Rupert has a nice waterfront, but the tourist attraction that had the biggest impact on me was …

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Canada Day at Barkerville BC (Celebrating the first Dominion Day)

My time at the Williams Lake Stampede, a Canada Day weekend tradition, was fun, but I decided to move closer to Alaska and had googled “where to spend Canada Day near Williams Lake”.   I quickly discovered a historical village called Barkerville.  Canada Day at Barkerville is their biggest day of the year as they celebrate …

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