Glacier National Park
Got up very early in the morning and found a place for breakfast called Montana Coffee Traders Cafe in Kalispell, Montana. Awesome coffee! Very nice little town a little over a half hour from the west entrance to Glacier National Park. Actually, it was pretty big for being in the middle of nowhere. We heard that there were a lot of forest fires in the region, so we worried about getting detoured again.

After breakfast, we headed up to Glacier National Park. This is a new picture near the visitor center by Lake MacDonald taken just after we came in the west park entrance.

Although we didn't have any problems getting in through the west entrance, we found out when we got there, we were able to go almost all the way through the park and stop five miles short of the east entrance where we were turned back by the forest fire. So, we were able to drive about 45 miles into the park and see most of it. Unfortunately, the plan was to leave on the east and continue on to Great Falls. Instead, we had to turn back and retrace our route back to the west entrance. We did get to see a lot of beautiful scenery though.

Even got to see a bunch of mountain goats.

We also reached the northernmost point of the trip at mile 3921 at the Loop Lookout. For the geography geeks, that was at N 48.755, W 113.800. At this point, we were 1066 miles "as the crow flies" from home. Thanks to the Canadians, this is a far north as we will get. Blame Canada! Another new shot taken at Loop Lookout:

We lost a lot of time backtracking and decided to camp out by the Hungry Horse Reservoir on the southwest side of the park. When we left the park we started out driving around it to the east side so that we could go to Great Falls. But it was pretty late by then, so we turned back and spent the night there.