Our next major destination is Yellowstone, but before we leave Glacier, we take the Chief mountain Highway up to the International Border. Waterton Lakes is the Canadian portion of the Waterton Glacier International Peace Park that just happens to have a border running through it.
We visit Canadian Customs and drive for a while, then come back into the US and head for Yellowstone.
Driving south along the eastern flank of Glacier, we stop for snacks outside St. Mary
at the Two Sisters Cafe.
Interesting place, and rich with old advertising signs of all kinds.
Then we head towards Helena and then take I-15 to Butte Montana where we stay at another nice Hampton Inn for the night. Laundry,Pizza, beer and wine, and Perry Mason on TV.
in Yellowstone we have reservations at Grant Camp well south in the park, but we decide to come in via the North Entracne rather the eastern one, to get a full view from top to bottom.
Along the way, we stop many times, since this is Jackie's first visit!
We got to our campsite at 10:30 and called it quits in record time.
The next morning we met our neighbors across the road.
Connor,Mackenzie,Mike and Kimberly and Lucy were touring in Oregon and are now on their way home to North Carolina.
Lucy the dog is still sleeping.
Late start in the morning. We registered, broke camp and moved to a nicer site in Loop A. Then we went off exploring for the day.
It was time to move camp again, and this time we got a site at Indian Creek Camp, basically in the heart of the weird forest and grassland where it's not safe to walk anywhere off the beaten path lest you fall through into hot water unexpectedly.
The campground itself is fully safe and delightful, and we met numerous people on our walkabouts.
That's not snow by the way. It's 90+ degrees outside.
Boiling water just inside the overhang.
At one point during lunch hour, a Ranger went out as a crossing guard - the people needed the stop directions, and the four-legged visitors knew the drill so it all went very well.
Hard to see but there's a fledgling Osprey in the nest far below on top of the pinnacle.
