
Barkerville is a gold mining town dating back to the late 1850's Canadian gold rush. It has been painstakingly restored to the way it looked in the 1870's.








We spend an interesting two hours walking around looking in all the buildings and visiting with the shopkeepers about the area. We have a nice bread bowl of soup and some rootbeer at one of the restaurants and then watch a movie on the town history. It starts raining as we finish the tour. Since it is still early in the afternoon we elect to drive on. We are tired of camping in the rain!
The highway follows the path of the original road built in the early 1860's to bring supplies to the various gold rush towns in interior British Columbia. There are some nice vistas of pretty lakes and rolling farm land, but the road is narrow and the traffic is very heavy with many heavily loaded logging trucks.
By 4PM we are ready to stop but pass several less then wonderful looking campgrounds. About 5:30 in Lac La Hache we see a nice, small, grassy campground fronting on a pretty lake and stop. It finally stopped raining about 75 miles back and the sun came out. We drove 290 miles today after all.
After setting up the rig,


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