Glacier National Park

We arrived at the east side of Glacier National Park and picked the cheaper of the two available private campgrounds as the park campgrounds do not allow rigs our length.  This campground is OK, nothing special, but has fantastic views and is $20 cheaper, per day, than the KOA, which is the other campground.  The campground sits on the top of a small hill and gives you views of the mountains and St. Mary’s lake.

Here are the views from our camp site

We learned as we checked in that the Road to the Sun, which is the road from the east entrance to the west entrance of the park, was only open for 17 miles as there is still too much snow on the rest of the highway.  This was disappointing news as we have heard the drive is spectacular.  We were told that the park hopes to have it open by mid-July.  Pretty tough for this area as the tourist season lasts only the summer months.

We went ahead and made the limited drive and were rewarded with an up close viewing of a Black Bear and cub.   They were both right along the road eating grass.

It was cold and extremely windy when we took this drive so our plan is to come back on a better day and do some of the hikes and possibly a bike ride.  Here are some additional pictures I took of the views from the drive.