Glacier NP

Our LAST BIG National Park to visit before heading back East was Glacier NP. If you are visiting parks, I’d recommend doing Glacier FIRST, then Yellowstone.  Glacier is great, but not relative to Yellowstone.

The MOST distinguishing characteristics of Glacier were the beautiful, beautiful wildflowers which were abundant, and the waterfalls, streams and lakes, also abundant. We drove the “southern route” which started in St. Mary’s to the East and headed west on the “Driving to the Sun” Hwy. The vistas were stunning. We had been told how scary the road was winding up through Logan Pass, but we have done similar things, and didn’t notice it, except on occasion.

We loved seeing the abundance of wildflowers. One stood out, and one of our few opps to ask a parker ranger, we learned it was “bear grass”. He further told us that it only blooms every 7 years, and this year happened to be one of the best blooming seasons of recent history.

The only drawback to our visit on 1 August, was the lack of parking. Parking spots were limited, and the first two hikes we hoped to make, we couldn’t due to lack of a parking spot.

We did get to make one hike, and we’ll tell you that story next blog post.

 This is "Bear Grass" and only blooms every 7 years, but we caught it at the right time!

Both these were along one of the many, many glacial streams.