Here There and Everywhere

Expat wanderer

From West Glacier National Park to Glacier Park Lodge the Long Way

We have yet to drive the complete Going-to-the-Sun road, and we know it just isn’t in the cards this trip, even with the heat wave (temperatures are in the 80’s F.) it just makes avalanches less predictable. The road is closed.

So we have to go around, and the going around is beautiful. The map below is from Google Maps.

 

From East Glacier Park Village, we will be able to take Two Medicine Road. In the old days, this WAS the road into the park, and it is beautiful. (Don’t worry, I intend to balance all this navigation with a lot of photos.)

Map into Many Glacier and Road-to-the-Sun from East Entrance at St. Mary:

 

What is very cool is that these maps are free, online, at My Yellowstone Park.

You know we have a preference for having the road all to ourself, so an early departure – not too early, like 7:00 a.m. – gets us what we want. Google Maps tells us it will only take an hour and 19 minutes, but we are big on the experience, and we stop often, and it takes us a little longer.

 

 

 

 

 

The first thing we see coming into East Glacier Park Village is a gorgeous lodge, the Glacier Park Lodge. When I tried to book it, it said it would not be open when we visited and it wasn’t open, but . . . the people working to get it open were very kind, and a ranger showed us through the beautiful old hotel. It has huge timbers holding up the lobby, and a beautiful skylight in the roof so it all feels bright and airy and open. This place is gorgeous.

 

 

This hotel is one of the classic lodges, built to bring visitors to see these amazing sights in a time when there were no super highways, but there were trains. Just across from the hotel is the AmTrak stop.

 

 

 

 

 

There is a large golf course, many activities, a famous dining room, and best of all, it is located at the entrance to Two Medicine.

 

June 28, 2019 Posted by | Adventure, Beauty, Hotels, Road Trips, Travel | , , , | Leave a comment