June 12, 2026 Wilcox Creek Campground, Alberta to Lake Allison Provincial Campground, British Columbia

Woke up to a foggy drippy morning with views of only clouds and fog. The snow covered mountains were there when we went to bed bu somehow disappeared overnight. Coffee and tea as usual and we decided to keep going north on the Icefields Parkway to Jasper which was 1-½ hours. Not much traffic going north but quite a bit more going the other way toward Banff.

Driving into Jasper we saw the remnants of the 2024 fire that burned a whole lot of trees and a third of Jasper. Pulling into Jasper we saw row after row of temporary housing, mostly unoccupied now, but we assume housed the refugees from the fire and all the workers needed to rebuild the town. We found the Jasper Waffle Shop and both had waffles, blueberry and strawberry. After brunch we drove through town and saw the parts of town that didn’ burn and filled up with gas ($1.83/liter).

Jasper is the end of Rt 93 which we started on June 2 in Wickenburg, AZ. Now we head back south. If we go any further north we will be way north since the inner parts of BC are pretty wild still.

So west on Rt 1 and then south on Rt 5 to Kamloops, which is a big town (5 McDonalds big) and then turned onto Rt 5 south which is a slower two lane picturesque road. We stopped at Kentucky-Allyene Provincial Park but it was full. Then we went south another 30 minutes and found a site at Lake Allison Campground. Met some folks from New York that were returning from Alaska and had a nice chat. Supper was ravioli and salad then reading and bed. Hotel tomorrow night?