- Chetywynd, BC to Mackenzie, BC via BC-97 and BC-39 (John Hart HIghway and Mackenzie Blvd.)
- Mackenzie, BC to McBride, BC via BC-39, BC-97 and BC-16 (Mackenzie Blvd., John Hart Highway, Yellowhead Highway)
A while after you leave Chetywind, you leave the Peace River Regional District and enter the Fraser-Fort George Regional District.
The Powder King Ski Resort is in Pine Pass, the lowest pass through the Rocky Mountains in BC. Pine Pass is the summit of the east/west highway, but is not actually the continental divide. The vagaries of geography mean that Summit Lake, hundred kilometers or so down the road, is actually the north/south continental divide.
They were working on the road in Pine Pass. Yep, that's fire coming out of the bottom of that asphalt machine.
We took a detour up to Mackenzie, BC. It is on Williston Lake, the reservoir for the Bennett Dam.
They have this really cute garden with the "M" in the middle as you come into town.
They also have this really cool tree shredder on display. This is a logging town and they are proud of it.
There are a couple of very large mills in Mackenzie. This is a sort shed from one of them, the Canfor mill.
Heading from Mackenzie to Prince George, the road is relatively unexciting.
On the other hand, heading from Prince George down to McBride presents more and more views of the west slope of the Rocky Mountains.
Yep, we're here.
Why thank you! I appreciate it.
It wouldn't be a McBride if their wasn't a railroad in its history somewhere.
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