So That’s Who Started it.

In the South-East corner of the Yukon is the small town of Watson Lake on the Alaska Highway. In 1942, while working on the Alaska Highway, a homesick US Corps of Engineers soldier nailed a sign to a tree indicating how far it was to his home town. While the idea has been copied world-wide, nowhere reached the same level as Watson Lake, which now has its “famous” Sign-post Forrest, with an estimated 80,000 signs.Read more