Golden will always hold a very special place in my heart. It's a wild long story, but I took an insane YOLO trip out there when I was 20, and by sheer luck, met two boys who, after another long story, I ended up adopting as my own. I traveled across Canada to meet someone for coffee and a laugh, and returned with the two greatest people who are now my entire life. They were 4 and 5 when I first met them, and are now 18 and 19 and my oldest is expecting his first child. The sheer insane luck and chance that brought us together is unmeasurable, and that very moment in Golden, changed our 3 lives for ever. There is simply no way to describe what that one trip to Golden, on a pure whim, brought us. I owe everything that I am, everything I have, and everything I have ever loved to that one single moment. I love you J.J. and Gorden. Never fear, never hesitate, and never doubt. Life is full of surprises! - We will return some day!
I have to disagree on one point: there is plenty of reason to take the route through the Fraser Canyon: incredible scenery. The Coquihalla is pretty nice too, but the Thompson and Fraser Canyons beat all competition every time, as far as I'm concerned. The canyon route is also important historically, as it follows the path of the old Cariboo Wagon Road constructed in the 1860s that connected the Lower Mainland to the gold fields of the Cariboo during the Cariboo Gold Rush. One last important point: in winter, the canyon route is safer and not subject to the same amount of snow that the Coquihalla gets. Back in the pre-European settler days, the local Natives had a trail that went through the Coquihalla, but avoided using it in the winter because of the heavy snow and long winter. The Kettle Valley Railway ran through the Coquihalla from 1915 to 1959, and it was subject to all the same hazards that the Native travelers ran into and that the present-day travelers also encounter - which is why the railway was eventually abandoned. And of course, because it's freeway, motorists drive like idiots through the Coquihalla, and accidents are common and frequently close down the highway. So actually, you are welcome to carry on avoiding the Fraser Canyon and leave us Canyon drivers in peace. ;-)
"This section of the Trans-Canada highway is both exhilarating and terrifying at the same time." Everyone living in the Alps be like: "Bruh, plz. This ain't nothing."
Loving this series through the Canadian Rockies. Just subscribed to your channel. I still vividly remember driving down that grade toward the Kicking Horse rest area, and not just because it was a thrilling drive...I was desperate to find a restroom, lol.
I think the Highway 1 designation might someday be moved to the Coquihalla If you notice the exit numbers on the Coq are a continuation from Highway 1 through the lower mainland and when you go through Kamloops, the exit numbers are a continuation from the Coq. Also it is built as a continuous freeway with the other routes exiting off of it. It would make the most sense to do that and redesignate the Fraser Canyon and make the Coq Highway 1
Oh I didn't notice the numbering thing. Good catch! Yeah it would make total sense to me for the Coq to be reclassified as the TCH #1 between Kamloops and Hope.
Especially when you considwr that BC Highway 5 is the same as Highway 1 all the way up to the Yellowhead. It makes sense to have the route to Cache Creek and south to Hope as Highway 5,
Just beautiful. I am from the US eastcoast , I am wondering if there are there enough gas stations in between the long streches of Trans Canada Highway from Calgary to Vancouver .
Louie Brilliantes Yeah there are tons of places between Calgary and Vancouver. Canmore, Banff, Field, Golden, Revelstoke, Sicamous, Salmon Arm, Kamloops, Hope, Abotsford, etc.
Louie Brilliantes Yeah there are tons of places between Calgary and Vancouver. Canmore, Banff, Field, Golden, Revelstoke, Sicamous, Salmon Arm, Kamloops, Hope, Abbotsford, etc. Never more than an hour between stations even in the remote places.
@@louiebrilliantes9680 They are right along the highway. Only the 3 hr stretch between Kamloops and Vancouver and the 2 hr stretch between Calgary to Yoho National Park are freeways where you'd have to take an exit (similar to the US Interstate Highway System). The rest of it is not freeway and will pass right through the main streets of various towns and small cities. Even the freeway portions though will have gas stations immediately adjacent to the exits so you don't have to detour into a city or town.
Great video, I drove last June on my way to see my mother in Vernon. Traffic was really light for a Sunday and it was rainy as we went through the canyon. On the way back the weather was beautiful. Would love to do it again.
Hard to believe it's September, 2020 and the BC government finally announced the selected contractor to complete Phase 4. The final section of twinning between Yoho National Park and Golden BC.
yeah I just drove through Yoho National Park last month again for the first time in 4 years and was disappointed to see how little progress has been made so far :-(
