Closed for the Season

Closed signs greet us everywhere. So far we're spent four nights camping in four closed campgrounds. No services but free. We're thinking this is classy boondocking.

Campgrounds are not alone in being "closed for the winter". Many small restaurants and food stands report they'll see us again in the spring. Motels, B&B's, boat rentals, and private RV parks are also sporting closed signs along with gated entries and shuttered windows. Even the zip line we passed was closed for the season.

Despite all the closures we are enjoying our off-season travel. We like the weathering drama and the empty camp grounds plus with so few people are out and about we can scofflaw a bit and let Benton run free. And on clear nights it is free of lights, giving us complete night sky dark for star and moon gazing.

Last night there was no star gazing. It was raining when we arrived in camp, raining when we went to bed, rained all night and is still raining this morning. We have one very wet dog! And, if the weather forecast is to be believed, it will continue to rain for several more days.

Nelson, a sweet little town, was on our route yesterday. The typical town sprawl was nicely contained with a river on one side and a mountain on the other.

The courthouse and museum were particularly charming...

Leaving town we crossed this lovely bridge...

Kokanee Creek Provincial Park, our closed, but not, home for the night...

The next morning we backtracked to Nelson for coffee and then continued along Highway 3, crossing Kootenay Bay on a too-cute-for-words free ferry...

This highway is a crazy squiggle running east-west but along the way heads north, then south, then north, and then south again before we leave it and return to the US...

Moyie Lake Provincial Park becomes our day's destination and provides us with a rainy larch-surround home for the night...

Ahead of us is another full day and night in BC before heading for Whitefish. Our departure from home was way too late in the season to head further north on this trip.

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“I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”

~ Henry David Thoreau

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