Back In The USA

We left the fabulous Waterton Nat’l Peace Park last evening and crossed back into the US at the Chief Mountain Boarder Crossing in Montana at 6:46 pm. We’ll miss Canada but it’s always good to be “home”. Now on to see more of the lower 48. It wasn’t a mile after crossing the boarder that we had guests on the road. Open ranges again. I would think it would terribly difficult to round up the cattle in all of these trees. We found a nice location to pull off and spend the night on the roadside. The sunset was not over the top but so soft and pretty over that lake .

Today we are going to Glacier Nat’l Park, the sister to Waterton Nat’l Peace Park in Canada. We decided to utilize the parks shuttle system to ride the Going-To-The-Sun road through the park. This is a 52 mile drive on a winding, narrow road. It also was nice that we didn’t have to drive and could just sit back and enjoy the scenery. As expected, the scenery was breathtaking, creeks, streams, lakes, mountains, valleys, and animals were plentiful. The Going-To-The-Sun road is a narrow road that was cut into the mountain side along a cliffs edge. There was no room for error when driving. This road is being repaved so it made for several long delays. Due to these delays we did not get back from the round trip until after 5 pm and were unable to take the hikes we wanted to take. The first part of the drive, from the East to the West, was more scenic than the second half. Had we known, we would have made the turn around at the halfway point, headed back East and taken a couple of the 2.5 to 3 mile hikes. Oh Well, next time?!