Day One in Glacier

Years ago, my mom bought a book about Glacier National Park and Waterton. (Same park, Waterton is the Canadian side.) It was filled with beautiful pictures of glaciers, snow capped mountains, rivers, and colorful flowers. Ok this place looks just like that guys. It’s sort of a “meeting place” for many different kinds of biospheres. The amount of diversity in the park is incredible. There are tall peaks with mountain goats, sheep, etc. that rest on top of these green valleys with tall cedars, and waterfalls and rivers that flow down into prairies. It is breathtaking.

Our first day there we drove up to the east side of the park, St. Mary’s, and took the Going to the Sun Road all the way to the southwest entrance to the park. The road is fifty miles long and winds around glaciers, waterfalls, rivers, lakes, through tunnels. It took us nearly three hours to drive through because we kept stopping to take pictures. (There was also a fair amount of construction going on—probably an ongoing project due to weather/rock slides/etc.) There isn’t really much I can say to explain the beauty here…so I will just post a bunch of pictures. They probably won’t do it justice either, but it’s worth a try.