On the Way to Glacier National Park

On July 18th we left Wyoming and headed north on I-90 into Montana.  We followed the Yellowstone River to Bozeman; crossed the Continental Divide near Butte; turned south at Missoula on hwy 93 and into the Bitterroot National Forest region.  The Bitterroot River wound it's way through the forest and towns.





Near Stevensville, we stopped to visit relatives on their Montana farm. We parked in the farm yard and camped there a couple days.  Some of their cattle came to pose for pictures one afternoon.

Leaving Stevensville we headed north again, through Missoula and up hwy 93 to Flathead Lake.  Flathead Lake is one of the largest freshwater lakes west of the Mississippi. We drove around the east side of the lake, to see the Flathead cherry orchards. Flathead cherries were advertised at grocery stores and little fruit stands along the way, so we stopped to buy some...they are Bing cherries, and were quite good. Another fruit in season was huckleberry, which they used for pies, ice cream, jam, jelly, etc. (kind of like blueberries).

Our destination was a campground in Kalispell, MT.  It was from Kalispell that we started our tour of Glacier National Park.  We would be touring Glacier Park for a week: July 22-29th.