Pink Mountain to Dawson Creek, British Columbia – 18 September 2024

After being spoiled with beautiful scenery in Yukon and the Muncho Provincial Park, we were rather disappointed with the road to Dawson Creek. Apart from a deer at the side of the road, there were no majestic mountains or vivid fall colours. However, the vegetation around Dawson Creek looked very much like Saskatewan with many flat farm fields that were yellow/gold in colour.

We stayed in Dawson Creek for a couple of nights and went “downtown” Dawson to do some shopping and to take a walk along the Dawson Trail. The Dawson Trail is about 4.5 km and connects various parks and areas of the community together. It was really appreciated after many hours in the car.

I never realized that agriculture was such a thriving industry in Dawson Creek . Dawson Creek has very favourable growing conditions for crops, livestock and honey and is close to many grain terminals which we saw on the way into town. In the 1940’s Dawson Creek had about 13 wooden grain elevators which were replaced overtime with modern ones. In 1982 Dawson Creek realized that the wooden silos were an important symbol of Canadian agriculture history and as only 2 remained at the time, they purchased one from the Alberta Wheat Pool. It was moved to an area in Dawson Creek called Heritage Park and then converted into an impressive Art Gallery.

Dawson Creek sits in the Peace River Regional District and is known as the “Capital of the Peace”. It is also referred to as “Mile 0 City” as it is at the southern end of the Alaska Highway.