Travel Glacier Teton NP

The drive from Billings, Montana to Glacier National Park was beautiful. You never have to wonder why they call it “Big Sky Country” – the mountains and blue skies were beyond stunning. We arrived to find plenty of people parked off to the side waiting for the magic time of day when they don’t have to have a reservation ticket for Going-To-The-Sun-Road. Once in the park, we parked at the St. Mary Visitor Center and walked a short walk to the Glacier National Park sign. Did yo

Our first full day in GNP and we woke up at 4:30am. While terribly painful to wake that early, we read that it was a MUST to get a parking spot at Logan Pass. Staying on the east side of the park meant we were slightly closer to the Logan Pass area than those who were planning to drive all the way from the west entrance. We drank our coffee and packed the car with our cooler, lunch items, and day hiking packs. Sunrise was at 5:30am and that’s exactly when we were headed out t

Since Going-To-The-Sun Road is the main thoroughfare through the park and many have deemed it worthy of driving in its entirety, that’s what we decided to do with our full second day in the park. Since we were far enough on the east side, we figured we would drive all the way to the west entrance, take a detour to a cool area in the northwest side, then head back east – stopping at plenty of pull offs to take photos and also making time for a top rated shorter hike to stretch