Faro, Yukon

Faro is the largest town on the Campbell highway, but it is actually much smaller than it looks. Because of a large fire, the town had been completely rebuilt in not long before my trip. Though it looks like a modern town in the adjacent pictures, it was almost completely empty when I was there. Due to severe environmental problems, the mine had been shut for a few years and only caretakers lived there. It was very eerie to drive around it, leaving one with feelings of driving around in a town where suddenly everyone had died.

From 1994 San Francisco - Arctic Ocean camping trip. Scan of an older picture. Best viewed as part of the NW Canada set.