We've spent the last two days at Glacier National Park. (http://www.nps.gov/glac/index.htm ) On Saturday we drove the Going to the Sun Road through Glacier. (http://www.nps.gov/glac/planyourvisit/goingtothesunroad.htm 
) It's an historic highway constructed in the 1930s and the only road that goes through the center of the park. The views along this drive are just amazing. The road is pretty narrow though, so driving it in our rig was an adventure. The first two pictures are from along the Going to the Sun Road. We were surprised that we didn't see near as much wildlife in Glacier as we had in Yellowstone. Glacier and the surrounding area has the greatest population of bear in the lower 48 states, but we haven't seen a one.
) It's an historic highway constructed in the 1930s and the only road that goes through the center of the park. The views along this drive are just amazing. The road is pretty narrow though, so driving it in our rig was an adventure. The first two pictures are from along the Going to the Sun Road. We were surprised that we didn't see near as much wildlife in Glacier as we had in Yellowstone. Glacier and the surrounding area has the greatest population of bear in the lower 48 states, but we haven't seen a one.We also have not seen a glacier. Right now the snow is still in the mountains and a park ranger explained to us that the glaciers will not be visible until the snow that's covering them right now has melted. There are currently 26 named glaciers left out of the 150 that were here when the park was established 100 years ago.
Today we went to Many Glacier and toured the historic hotel there. The next two pictures are from Swift Current Lake at Many Glacier. There are 200 lakes within Glacier National Park and waterfalls everywhere. The lakes are emerald green and gorgeous.
M, Good web site...enjoying following ya'll...jb
ReplyDeleteI haven't been to Glacier Nat'l Park since I was in high school. I need to get out more. We need a vaca!
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