Glacier National Park

This year we went to Glacier National Park for the first time. We have always been in love with Yosemite, Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, Zion, the Grand Tetons, and the Sawtooth Mountains. So we never thought that we had missed much. However, we were astonished to learn how beautiful Glacier is. The photo above is from our hotel. I walked out the hotel door early one morning, walked another 50 feet, and snapped what was in front of me.

We met our old and good friends, the Howells at Glacier National Park and explored it with them. (That was the best part of the trip.) We did the touristy things: a ride on the red bus over the Continental Divide on Going-to-the-Sun Road to MacDonald Lake where we had lunch at the hotel, and a boat ride the length of Waterton Lake.

We stayed at the old lodge on Swiftcurrent Lake for four nights and then spent the last night near the West entrance to he park. The food was typical of all the grand old National Park hotels. Adequate but not exciting. So, I will not go into any detail. I will say however that the food at the hotel on Lake MacDonald was a notch above the rest.

We did not drive from Berkeley. We flew to Spokane and rented a car instead. Nevertheless, we did a lot of driving. When we go again we will look into taking the train from Berkeley to Seattle and then from there to Glacier National Park.