Bye-bye Helena - Hello Glacier National Park. Google maps showed us a route completely different from what I had envisioned. It had us go west (Hwy 12) then north (Hwy 141, to 200, to 83, to 35, to 2). I thought I should go north (Hwy 287, to 89) and then west (Hwy 2). Google mapped a shorter route and since I had no reason to doubt it, we followed their plan. It was 216.8 miles of back roads (8,663.9 trip/68,145.0 total) that went surprisingly quickly. It had three advantages over the freeway. It was a slower pace, we rarely saw any traffic and the scenery was (I'm sure) more interesting.
The North American RV Park was about 6 miles from Glacier's west entrance which made it pretty convenient. It was still early in the season, so there were not many people in the area yet (maybe 10% of the campsites were being used).
There were snow capped mountains and thick forest in every direction around us. I think we were lucky with our timing - the weather could not be better! After settling in we decided to relax for the afternoon and wait for the morning to make our first trip into the park.
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