Watson Lake, Yukon Ter., Canada: Sign Post Forest
Begun when a homesick soldier posted a "New Zealand 9000 miles" sign in 1944, the display now has nearly 100,000 signs winding through trees. Mute testimony that people in the Yukon often think of being someplace else.
- Address:
- 9th St. N., Watson Lake, YT, Canada
- Directions:
- On the west side of town, on the north side of the Alaskan Hwy, at the corner of 9th St. N.
- RA Rates:
- Worth a Detour
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While researching our trip to Alaska, I read about the Sign Post Forest. I brought a Mountaineer sign from home and figured I might put it up if it seemed worthwhile. I had no idea what was in store!
It's hard to describe the Sign Post Forest. 80,000 previous travelers had left a piece of home in the beautiful but lonely outpost of Watson Lake, so we added one more for good measure. The full service, clean visitor center furnished a hammer and some nails for us to add our own piece of home.
[D Springer, 03/17/2017]
The sign post forest continues to attract signs from all places.
[Adam Scott Lankford, 06/08/2010]
This amazing attraction began during the construction of the famed Alaska Highway (AlCan) back in 1942. A lonely soldier from Danville, Illinois, working on the building crew, was so homesick for his hometown that he put up a Danville sign. From that point, others began adding signs.
Today there are over 60,000 signs! Wow! There is a great visitor center there as well.
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