So today was Glacier and Going to The Sun Road. We left Kalispell and headed to West Glacier, we saw a sign for Hungry Horse Dam and decided to take a little detour. The dam was huge and the road in was a wooded country road. I wasn't expecting such a big dam in such a small town. Will try to post a picture. Headed to West Glacier and drove in, got in free cause Jan's a Senior citizen now, lol....so that's one good thing about being old. The first few miles were along Lake McDonald, a huge lake and it was wooded and really nice. There was a really pretty bridge over a waterfall that was gorgeous, and we drove along looking at all the beautiful scenery. There was a smokey haze up high but you could still see the jagged Glacier outlines. It was climbing, but it wasn't cold and there really wasn't any switch backs and wasn't scary. It was high and had great views, plenty of cars and people.
https://www.nps.gov/glac/planyourvisit/gtsrinfo.htm
There are lots of places to pull of and take pictures. I would like to go back some day. It took us about 3 hours to drive through. Near the end is another beautiful lake, St. Mary Lake, reminded me of Crater Lake in Oregon. We spent a while there and walked down a short trail to take a lot of pictures. There were signs warning of bear and wildlife, but again, didn't see 👀 any. I would choose this Park over the ones in 🇨🇦 Canada. I am glad we went to Banff and Jasper to see all that, but if you were making a choice as which one to go to, I would go here first. This park also has several ⛺️ campgrounds. There are always hiking trails and lots of people hiking. We are still in Montana tonight and drove through more wheat fields on the way to where we stopped. It was really hot today. I thought the North was cooler, today was 93.
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