Great Falls to Glacier National Park

It was 42° and raining when we woke up at 7 a.m. and it was 54° in the RV. There were several RVs parked here at the Supercenter last night. This motorhome had all of it's slides out and was parked in a road in the parking lot. Parking like that is what makes RVs unwelcome at Wal-Marts.

From Great Falls to Glacier National Park

We left the Wal-Mart supercenter at 7:53 and stopped at Sam’s Club a few minutes later to get gas in the RV. We got a little over 55 gallons at $3.629 a gallon for a total of $200.

We got on I-15 North just west of Great Falls and a little later an Indian River tanker from Winter Haven, FL passed us on the interstate. It was raining so I wasn't able to get a photo.

We stopped at a rest area by the Teton River at 9:00. Mike adjusted the altitude setting on the generator so we could run it while driving. We saw this sign warning of rattlesnakes at the rest area (we didn't see any)

From Great Falls to Glacier National Park

and took this photo of the Teton River.

From Great Falls to Glacier National Park

We stopped at gas station at Shelby to top off the RV gas tank and paid $3.829 a gallon. We continued west on US-2 and drove through Cut Bank which says it's the coldest spot in the country.

From Great Falls to Glacier National Park

Then we drove through Browning in the Blackfeet Indian Reservation

From Great Falls to Glacier National Park

and got on US-89 West just west of Browning. Of course, Tinker was sooo excited to be heading to Glacier National Park as you can see in this photo.

From Great Falls to Glacier National Park

We drove through a large portion of forest that had been destroyed by fire in 2006.

From Great Falls to Glacier National Park

We had a couple of buses for the Going to the Sun Road tours pass us heading towards Browning.

From Great Falls to Glacier National Park

We had been climbing in elevation for most of our drive today and then we knew we were starting our descent when we saw this sign for a 7% grade.

From Great Falls to Glacier National Park

We passed by the small town of St. Mary and crossed the St. Mary River

From Great Falls to Glacier National Park

before entering Glacier National Park.

From Great Falls to Glacier National Park

We are in C Loop (the only portion of the campground open now) and are in site #138 which is a pull-through. We have no hookups here, but we can run the generator for 2 hours at each meal time. It was 174 miles from Great Falls to here.

From Great Falls to Glacier National Park

The wind was REALLY blowing ( 20 - 40 mph) when we got here and the slide topper roller on the driver side was unfurling and making a LOT of noise. Mike got up on the ladder and was able to clamp a vise grip on the roller to keep it from unrolling.

There was an RV parked in site #136 behind us and they said the wind had been blowing since yesterday (their slide topper was doing the same thing) and that they didn't get any sleep last night. They were paid through Monday here, but they left this afternoon to go down to the KOA campground so they could have hot showers.

The wind has finally calmed down and the weather is supposed to be clearing tomorrow. This is the view we have from the driver side of the RV.

From Great Falls to Glacier National Park

As they say "a picture says a thousand words".