Havre, Montana

We left St. Mary, Montana on Monday since the Road to the Sun was still not open.  Prior to leaving, over the weekend, we did some additional sightseeing by driving another road, Many Glacier, into the park as it was near our RV Park.  It had some great views of the mountains as well as a Resort Lodge on a little lake.  We took a walk around the lake but did not run into any wildlife.  Here are some pictures from our walk.

In looking at the map I had decided to go across Montana on State Highway 2 instead of going out of our way south to pick up the interstate.  The drive out of St. Mary on Highway 89 was just beautiful.  It was very scenic as most of it was through the mountains.  We paid the price for the views with gas mileage around 6 mpg because of the hills. 

We stopped in Havre, Montana, which is about 200 miles from St. Mary.  It is a small town but it has a Wal-Mart Supercenter so we could go grocery shopping at decent prices.  The campground was nothing special.  It is actually quite small but it is amazing how they got over 50 spaces in it.  When checking in the lady has a map of the park with the length of every space on it.  Due to the length of our rig we were limited to just a few spaces around the center median.  They are pull through, sort of.  It is a very different RV park.  It is situated between a rail yard and the main street for town.  It is part of a gas station, hotel complex.  We had planned to stay a few days here but decided against it as it really is just an overnight type park.  Here are a couple of pictures.

So, where to next.  We did not make any reservations for the July 4th weekend as we were playing it day to day as we travel.  Looking at the map there were not many choices of RV parks in this area of Montana, or western North Dakota.  We found a park in Glasgow, Montana, about 120 miles from Havre, that has spaces for the weekend so we are headed there.  Not sure if the park is any good, we will see, otherwise we may just drive much further into central North Dakota and hopefully find something there.  Before leaving Havre I have to add this information, the town has about 10,000 residents but has 9 casinos.  Machine gambling (poker, keno, etc.) is legal in Montana and it is everywhere.  Our RV park/Hotel has two casinos!

I did not do a 4 month update last week, so here is the map to keep you informed.