Three days on the road and two nights of national forest sites got us from the Badlands to Glacier NP. We took a couple of nights to recouperate at a KOA before heading to the park, unbeknownst to us, on the Friday leading into Labor Day weekend. Ugh.
Somehow we got a campsite that first night, but foolishly left it the next morning, hoping for a better one that had a reputation of MANY MANY BEAR!!! sightings. Well after the 1 hour drive to this campsite it was full...at 11am. We went ahead and took our preplanned 3 hour hike which was fun, but essentially screwed us over for the rest of the weekend. After spending about 4 hours searching the park for an open campground on Saturday night...we left two days earlier than we had planned.
We had fun though. We saw a black bear, lots of glaciers, a mountain goat, took a nice hike to a secluded waterfall, and had a steak at the lodge.
Glacier: you are beautiful. We are sad that we didn't even come close to seeing all of you that we wanted to. But that weekend it was not meant to be. We will be back to love you once again, and certainly not on a national holiday weekend.
-Trent
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