WATSON LAKE, YT — For decades, a tourist attraction along the Alaskan Highway consisting of signs from other places has inspired the imagination of tourists of destinations they would rather be visiting instead of a Signpost Forest.
“I wish I was in Berlin right now instead of standing beside a noisy highway and looking at a collection of East German detour signs from the 1970s”, explained Hal Chipperson from Utah before letting out a large sigh. “We could have gone to Paris this year, but we just went to a place that has a sign that says ‘Paris.’”
Some tourists were trying to make the best out of the attraction by attempting to justify why they’d stopped at an otherwise unremarkable place.
“Wow, [those signs] are slightly different from the normal signs I usually see,” said a tourist visiting from Wolfville, Nova Scotia, referring to the round shaped European signs. “I’m pretty sure there’s not a place like this in Lombard, Illinois since they have better things to do there other than nail old metal restaurant signs from West Virginia onto wooden poles.”
A number of the signs were in foreign languages that many visitors didn’t understand. However, that didn’t stop many from imagining a better vacation in Amsterdam, Tokyo or Chehalis, BC.
While many travellers forgot why they stopped in the first place, most agreed that it still beats the CN Tower.
