Signpost forrest3/17/2023 ![]() I met a couple from Nevada that were doing a three month retirement/anniversary trip to Alaska. Around 72,000+ signs are scattered throughout more than two acres and I didn’t bring anything!? During this repair he placed a sign of his own from his hometown in Illinois which began the start of Signpost Forest. He was commanded to repair and repaint the directional sign outside of Watson Lake. The tradition was started by an Army of Engineers Private that was injured while working on the highway. A famous stop along the Alcan/Alaskan Highway where people from all over the world bring a sign to hang from their home town. So to my surprise I find Signpost Forest in Watson Lake. Along the way I stop when I see something that looks like fun. Maybe a few things here and there but generally I look at a map and drive. I’ll try to get back to you with a pithy answer.įeel free to explore the rest of the Artifact Photography (a division of 1350286 Ontario Inc.The Signpost Forest in Watson Lake, Yukon. If you have comments, questions, or can think of a better approach, feel free to leave a comment. This blog is published every Monday at 9:00 am, Eastern Standard Time. It’s from a high enough viewpoint to see multiple rows of posts, is cluttered enough to show a wide variety of sign types. I love the deep blue sky in Springhill Louisiana, and the eclectic nature of the signs, but it looks a bit too much like other pictures of the site. Gap really shows the layers and different types of signs, but it doesn’t show any particular sign. Signpost forest through the trees has a lot of mystery and depth to it and it keeps drawing me to it, but I just think it’s too dark. I found three shots that show the layers of signs on display. I also decided that a shot of a small group of signs didn’t quite give the impression of the size of the site. I decided that a single shot of the entire collection was out of the question. This all goes to show the extent of the problem of making a definitive image to show the size and variety of the collection. Some people grab their license plates and nail them up. I’d love to know the background on places like “Snob Nob” or “Cool”. Still others attracted my attention with their weird names. Others made me wonder how many towns and cities are missing crucial road signage. Some were very creative, such as an enameled camping plate with the location painted on it. People come a long way to hang an artifact on a post. Tauranga, New Zealand 14,050 kmsĪt first, the furthest ones I noticed were either in Europe at about 7,000 km, and then I ran into Tauranga, New Zealand at 14,050 kilometres. An aerial shot wouldn’t do it justice, and I don’t have a drone anyway.Īs you walk through the forest, you tend to focus on place names you know, or interesting places from afar. The forest consists of hundreds of 6×6″ posts covered in thousands of signs, spread throughout a grove of trees spread over two or three acres of land. Between the two of us, my wife and I shot 101 photographs of the signpost forest. Because it was late and I was decidedly tired after a nine-hour drive from Fort Nelson, British Columbia, I shot in (gasp!) program mode. I took a month off to drive to the Yukon with my wife this summer and when I stopped at Watson Lake, I wanted to create an iconic photograph that would show both the size and variety of signs in the forest. You can read a more detailed account in the Watson Lake website. ![]() Now, there are over 82,000 signs installed. ![]() Thus began the tradition of posting home town signs in the world famous Signpost Forest. Lindley attached his home town sign of Danville, Illinois to the directional post at Watson Lake. In 1942, while working on the Alaska Highway, a lonesome, homesick soldier named Private Carl K. Reproduction of original sign by Carl Lindley
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