Drive from Tok to Top of the World Highway

Yesterday was a miserable, rainy day. We drove 20 miles and decided to go to a campground. By 10 AM we were in camp and happy.

Today is the day for Chicken Alaska and the beginning of the TOW(Top of the World Highway).Started out fine, down the Alaska Hwy 12 miles to Taylor Hwy to Chicken. A lot of gravel spots and some horrendous washer board spots. 

Made it to Chicken and had planned to stop for the day at West Fork BLM campground. GPS was pointing to the campground. After Chicken, the road became dirt, narrow and very rough. We hoped we didn’t meet another  MH but only had 7 miles to go, lots of twisty 180-degree switchbacks, no guardrails, big drops(500'+).  We passed where the GPS told us to turn, no road and no campground, kept going. About 15 miles further we pulled over(there have been no pullouts to this point) at a wider spot and put on our 4-ways. Had only seen 4-5 cars but one never knows. 
 

We had no idea where we were, pulled out the maps(GPS useless) and concluded we had made a wrong turn someplace. Hard to believe, no place to make any wrong turns. The only choice was to continue until we could turn around, not happy about going back over the road we had just transversed. We thought we were on the road to Eagle, this is a definite no-no with our rig. We had no choice but to drive until we found a turnaround spot, luckily, the missing campground showed up, 10-15 miles from where the GPS said it would be. We pulled in since we knew we had been planning to stay the night. Site 1, the traditional host site, was occupied. He was outside so we asked where we were and were we on the correct road? He assured us all was well, in 13 miles we would see a “Y”, go right(left is the famous Eagle Road) and that was the TOW. He also assured us the road gets better, I sure hope so. 

I give our campground host credit for being at this campground. He has a 2-hour drive to get to Dawson City where there is a general store. He must like isolation because there is no TV or internet either. 

By now I am exhausted stressed and many other words. Tomorrow is another day.

In hindsight is we had looked at our topo map book we would have been fine and understood where we were. Some signage would have helped, all we had were mileage markers every 5 miles and knew we were on the Taylor Hwy(a big stretch of the imagination). The famous Milepost, which has excruciating detail, in the index never mentions the Taylor Hwy. After we stopped for the day we figured out it was under Klondike Loop.$^%^(&(

My sense of adventure was severely stretched today, a story for around the campfire. 

We were so anxious on this road we didn't take any pictures.