Glacier National Park

We are really happy we stopped, missed Glacier last year due to weather.

We stayed at Johnsons campground near the park entrance. As we were unhooking our "toad"  Barbara screamed as a brown bear came over the ridge running full out towards us.  Fortunately it was after something else, and headed down the hill to the lake. 

When we reached the top of the entrance to the campground Was able to navigate the entire "road to the sun" a 50 mile trek through the valleys and mountains. Our campground was on a hill across from the park giving us a panoramic view of the mountains and St Rose lake.
Glacier National Park is located in the U.S. state of Montana, bordering the Canadian provinces of Alberta and British Columbia to the North and the Blackfeet Indian Reservation to the East. Glacier National Park contains two mountain ranges (sub-ranges of the Rocky Mountains), which are sometimes referred to as the southern extension of the Canadian Rockies. The park encompasses over 1 million acres, with 300 lakes.
The Going-to-the-Sun Road was completed in 1932 and is a spectacular 52 mile, paved two-lane highway that bisects the park east and west. It spans the width of Glacier, crossing the Continental Divide at 6,646-foot-high Logan Pass. It passes through almost every type of terrain in the park, from large glacial lakes and cedar forests in the lower valleys to windswept alpine tundra atop the pass. Scenic viewpoints and pullouts line the road, so motorists can stop for extended views and photo opportunities. The road is well worth traveling in either direction, as the view from one side of the road is much different than from the other. In 1983 Going-To-The-Sun Road was included in the National Register of Historic Places and in 1985 was made a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark.