We're planning about a 5 week trip after the Osoyoos rally. Furthest stop will be visiting my wife's relatives in Iowa, before returning to our home in NW Montana.
I'm wondering if the very Southern Canada route, getting to Highway 1 from Osoyoos at about Medicine Hat, then Highway 1 dropping towards Northern Minnesota before Winnipeg, offers any nice camping opportunities, or is it mostly flat/a bit boring.
One option is to take about a week to get to the Northern Minnesota border, staying in Southern Canada. Banff and Jasper are awesome, but we've been there several times the past 7 years including last year, so I don't think we would do that this trip, especially with limited days.
It looks like about 24 hours of driving to get to Northern Minnesota at my Escape Trailer speed, so 3-4 hours a day driving. If this southern Canada route isn't particularly great for trailer camping, I'll look at other options, probably drop back down to the US and go through Montana and South Dakota to get to Iowa.
Any suggestions from those familiar with this route would be much appreciated!
I'm wondering if the very Southern Canada route, getting to Highway 1 from Osoyoos at about Medicine Hat, then Highway 1 dropping towards Northern Minnesota before Winnipeg, offers any nice camping opportunities, or is it mostly flat/a bit boring.
One option is to take about a week to get to the Northern Minnesota border, staying in Southern Canada. Banff and Jasper are awesome, but we've been there several times the past 7 years including last year, so I don't think we would do that this trip, especially with limited days.
It looks like about 24 hours of driving to get to Northern Minnesota at my Escape Trailer speed, so 3-4 hours a day driving. If this southern Canada route isn't particularly great for trailer camping, I'll look at other options, probably drop back down to the US and go through Montana and South Dakota to get to Iowa.
Any suggestions from those familiar with this route would be much appreciated!
oops: - it is on our bucket list!!!), I'm sure others on this forum will let you know of wonderful sites found in Saskatchewan and Manitoba, before you head south to the border.
) I love the prairies. They’re so different. The different wildlife & my favourite, the huge, open and ever-changing skies! Awesome. We recently did the Watertown Lakes (bucket lister for us)…spectacular! We were also told by a number of folks that Cypress Hills (E & W two seperate locations) are well worth a visit. The same for Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park. While we travelled west to east on Hwy 13 south of the #1, we did miss those two unfortunately due to a time constraint. We Will have to go back to those another time. Fortunately, we did decide to make a detour down to Grasslands Prov Pk. on the Sask / Montana border. We stayed there for several days. I can see some saying it was boring but, perhaps because it’s so different than where we live, we loved it. For us it was other-worldly and very interesting. Met up with some great Escape folks there too, who had also been to the Rally. Great hikes, however you have to keep an eye, as they say it has the highest concentration of rattlesnakes in N America. We saw two on our hikes. A tip here if you go, is to check the weather if you’re on a tight schedule. There are two routes in and out of the Park. Both involve fairly significant inclines. (and one is a much longer drive than the other). When we went to leave it had rained a lot the day before & it was a bit challenging to get out on the super slick mud on the longer route. Also, as others, we stayed off Hwy 1 opting for the two lane, local arterials. Given that we drive a little slower with the trailer anyway, 100-110kms/hr, we found that the roads were in fantastic shape & with no, to little traffic, we made great time on our travel days! 
