Waterfalls seem to be more numerous than glaciers in Glacier National Park in early summer. They are everywhere. Many of them are along the roads, and many more require a scenic hike to get to. Most of the ones we hiked to were when we stayed on the St. Mary’s side of Glacier National Park.
Waterfalls and Snowfields
Where there is melting snow there will be streams and maybe waterfalls.
Glacier had around 80 glaciers in the National Park in the late 1800s.
Now they only number in the twenties.
Along the Going to the Sun Road there seems to be a waterfall around every bend. Many aren’t named at the road and often times there is no parking to get to them.
Some are small and some seem to go on forever. We wanted to explore more of them, but our time was extremely limited since the Going to the Sun road only opened the last 2 days of our 2 week stay.
Timberline and the alpine zone are so unique. Adaptation is noticeable at elevation and summers are short. It was nice to see a mountain goat, even though he wasn’t that pretty shedding his winter coat.
Ground squirrels were plentiful.
There were a number of marmots too.
The area is beautiful.
We saw deer daily.
West Glacier RV Park
All of the sites are pull through with 50-amp electric, good water pressure, and sewer. West Glacier RV Park’s internet was fast enough to stream. Jake loved their two dog parks.
The RV Park was close enough to West Glacier and was an easy walk into town.
We had a few amazing sunsets. It stayed light until after 10pm at night.
Mammatous clouds. They usually mean stormy weather. South of us, they got 1-2 inch hail which resulted in car damage. The rental they gave us when the truck was serviced had hail damage. We got lucky!
A full moon over the Airstream.
Hungry Horse Dam
One of the largest concrete arch dams in the United States at 564 feet high.
In the winter of 1990, 2 draft horses named Tex and Jerry who worked for Montana logging pioneers, wandered away into belly deep snow. They were found a month later, gaunt, thin and hungry. The loggers named them “Mighty Hungry Horses”. The name stuck and a creek, town, and the dam were named after them. The area is beautiful with a lot of boating, camping, hiking, and bird watching.
