Muncho Lake Provincial Park serves up a visual feast. For more than 88 kilometres the Alaska Highway curves through the park, treating motorists to one of the most beautiful stretches of that long road north.

The park’s rumpled mountains rise 8,000 feet, their wrinkled look the result of tectonic deformations that have folded the limestone. In the southern part of the park along the highway, you will see a fine example in the aptly named Folded Mountain.

Clothed mostly in pine and spruce, the slopes sliding by your car window sport patches of moos campion, lousewort, wintergreen, asters, and lupine. Around the lake, where creeks enter and bogs are created, look for lady’s slipper, wild rose, and bog orchids.

Wildlife seems to like the park as much as tourists do. Moose commonly are sighted in the marshy parts of the park. Bears ramble all over. Mountain caribou and Stone’s sheep often come down to the road to lick the salt left from winter road maintenance.