![]() ![]() Just next to Rising Sun are flowery meadows where Grizzlies used to come every day at 7:00pm. Do not forget to check out the ranger programs from Rising Sun. Also, St Mary boat tours run from across the road. It’s a perfect location for all the accessible areas in the park. Rising Sun: This is the campground that we stayed in. This 408-foot tunnel through Piegan Mountain has waterfall cascade down it.Ģ4. East Tunnel: East Tunnel was one of the most difficult challenges to create. Lunch Creek: Lunch Creek flows down the national rock staircase from the striking backdrop of Pullock Mountain.ġ7. If you wish to go to Glacier National Park when possibility of snow-covered trail will be little less, would be the month of August and late July.ġ6. Hidden Lake on the other hand is very doable. And I gave up on an attempt to hike alone. Highline Trail is not for the faint hearted, my husband backed down from it. Also, we found that there were more Mountain Goats on the start of highland trail than the Hidden Lake. Hidden Lake is a great hike we still had the trail all snow covered in early July but hiking on it was fun too, we will talk about it in the next post. The Highline Trail starts from across the street. There is also a visitor center in the area - the Hidden Lake trail starts from behind the Visitor Center. ![]() Since there are two significant hikes that run from here - Hidden Lake and Highline Trail, there are plenty of people in the area. This place gets jam packed and finding a parking is a hassle after 9am. Forget everything else, but park here the earlier possible you can in the morning, possibly before 8:30am. ![]() Logan Pass: Logan Pass sites on the continental divide at 6646 feet. The powerful Glaciers that carved the U-shaped lake also carved the smaller hanging valley with waterfalls accessible by hikes.ġ5. Mc Donald Lake is a result of a massive glacier that once filled the valley and carved the deep basin filled with water today. Lake Mc Donald Valley is the largest of many glacially carved lakes in the past which is 10 miles long and 90 feet deep. ![]() Lake Mc Donald: As we started driving ahead of Apgar Campground, we saw the big Lake Mc Donald as our friend accompanying us. Sprague Creek Campground: Another campground located within trees in the west with about 25 sites.ĥ. Apgar Campground: Apgar is the largest campground in the park with 194 sites (cost $20 nightly) and makes a great base for explorations on the West side of Glacier.Ĥ. We also have some ranger programs there, so we attended one that talked about wildlife in Glacier National Park including Bears that are in significant numbers in Glacier National Park.ģ. Besides that, the Visitor center also serves as a shuttle hub for the west side of the park and houses a Glacier National Park Conservancy Store. Plus, with barely any network in Glacial National Park, a newsletter and a map are a very useful resource. They are always very helpful and guide you through this. We almost always stop at the Visitor Center in every National park in the US including this one. It’s a great place to grab maps, newsletter, know about which trails you can do from the information counter, know about vacancies in the campsites etc. It does provide information services - I would suggest taking your first stop here. Apgar Visitor Center: Just as you enter on your left after a few minutes into drive is Apgar Visitor Center. Glacier National Park signboard: Our first selfie has to be with the billboard.Ģ. Some of the highlights from Going to the Sun road are:ġ. Here is the map of Going to the Sun road (Map Reference : NPS Newsletter): to cut down on significant air cost.įirst Come First Serve Camping in Glacier National Park, Montana What I would suggest is, go during the shoulder season - Fall is beautiful there ( Anyone for TBEX Montana this year?) or even if you fly during Summers fly into airports that are 5 hours away - Spokane, Billings etc. Nonetheless, this doesn’t come as a surprise, it’s a slow transition from West Glacier entrance to the peaks and the valley and ends again with gradually seeming to relax in the East Glacier exit.ĭue to the popularity of Glacier National Park during Summer season (Mid July - Sept 1st week), the airfare prices are usually high to the nearest Airport. When we were in Kalispell, we had no idea if these low-lying mountains ahead of us in view would change to something so dramatic that we would be spell bound. It’s interesting how landscapes in Montana can be. Cars look like toys as we drive on the only road that cuts through the panorama of valleys and peaks. That drops on the road would be traversing through humongous landscape where you’d realize how miniscule we as human beings are in there. ![]()
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