Gas stations up North
On the way back from the '02 Rendez-vous, I started (a little late, I only thought of it as I was
crossing into BC from YT)
saving waypoints for the gas stations I encountered.
There are actually a lot more than I expected, and you definitely do not need
400 miles of range to ride up there, at least during the tourist season (and
during "regular" hours.) Still,
I had to backtrack 50 miles once, as I didn't get fuel when I could have,
figuring that I should be able to find something within 100 miles I still had
left of range, and the station I found at my 50-mile go/no-go point did not have
gas... Those were a painful 100 miles to ride, back to the previous city,
arriving there with 0 miles to go reported by the trip computer for the last 2
or 3 miles, and then back again over the same road :-) (and it was a wise
choice, as I would have ran out before hitting the next station :-(
Here are 2 files :
If you upload those to your GPS, it can help figure out how far till the next
available gas. Not every town on the map has a gas pump, and quite a few are in
random, secluded spots.
Caveats:
- I got most all the stations I passed, but I probably missed a few,
specially South of Cache Creek where I stopped worrying too much about fuel.
- More importantly yet: a few of those stations did not seem to be open yet
for the season (first week of June), and I don't know if they will.
- And stations seem to regularly run out of gas, so even if it's open, it
doesn't mean it will help...
- I didn't record more than one station when going through the major towns
that had a few choices.
- I might have marked a station off by a few hundred yards now and again,
when I was daydreaming, or busy eating my sandwich, or taking a quick nap*,
so do try to keep a buffer of at least a couple centiliters of gas for good
measure :-)
Cheers, Go North, Young (Wo)Man!
...or in the meantime, go back to the '02
Rendez-vous trip report,
or to Dominique
Moto pages
Gas station at Trapper Ray's Lodge, at Liard Hot Springs.
* (this is a J O K E !
Sheesh! no need to faint, Mom!)
