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The International Peace Park is what is known as the US and Canadian Glacier parks that adjoin each other.  The best part about Waterton is the Townsite Campground and how close it is to the town and to beautiful Waterton Lake which has a nice gravel beach that goes on for a mile.   There isContinue reading “Waterton Lakes, Canada August 2026”

This is my favorite part of Glacier NP because the huge mountains are so close and there are many easy to hard hikes that are available from Many Glacier Campground and the adjoining Swift Current Motor Inn.  Plus, we saw our first moose here. Can’t say that this trip has been optimal – it wasContinue reading “Glacier NP, Many Glacier Area August 2026”

What a difference a day makes.  We had decided NOT to take the Going to the Sun Road over  Logan Pass to West Glacier  as planned because during our last night in East Glacier we had 75mph Saint Mary wind gusts and were glad that we had accidentally gotten into a cabin because it wasContinue reading “Glacier NP, Westside”

Two Medicine Like Jenny Lake in the Grand Tetons, Glacier NP has the “Shave off 2 hours each way by buying a $40 roundtrip boatride to a Trailhead” to which you could walk.  Twin Falls Trail and then up to Upper Two Medicine Lake, shaving off the entire Middle Two Medicine Lake Trek.  The boatContinue reading “Glacier NP, Two Medicine/St Marys 2026 August”

North Rim Yellowstone Canyon We entered the east side from Cody and drove to the Canyon Village area of Yellowstone where this magnificent waterfall and canyon presented the fir big WOW.  North Rim Drive is busy, but cars come and go quite often.  If the lot was full, parking alongside the road went for quiteContinue reading “Yellowstone Canyon / Geyser Basin”

Of course, Yellowstone is known for Old Faithful and other geysers, but the boiling pools of different colors and outlet holes make you wonder what is really going on in the Earth.  Our Yellowstone experience will include two separate entries as we have a Red Lodge Singer Song Writer Fest and Pleasureway Meetup in BigContinue reading “Yellowstone, Bubbling/Steaming  and Bison 2026 June”

A beautiful drive into the Tetons as we left cattle and farmland and got into the Snake River  and the touring snow capped mountain of Wyoming.  Phelps Lake Phelps Lake Hike was a perfect first hike in the park. This year, it is only approachable from the south since the Moose Highway was closed forContinue reading “Grand Tetons NP, Wyoming June 2026”

Monument Valley The buttes and monoliths assault your senses  as you go down the Moki Dugway that begins the Monument Valley area descending from the flatter, higher area into another level of wide open.   As it is April, there is some green on the ground to contrast the beautiful red sandstone.  We had to stopContinue reading “Arizona – Monument Valley , Antelope Slot Canyon, Horseshoe Bend, – April 2026”

Snow Canyon State Park, St. George Area The reds of the sandstone in so many textures and cypress green mixed with a bit of the distant white mountains are incredibly beautiful.  Petrified Dunes /Lava Flow Hike Luckily they were petrified and not sandy dunes – made the hiking a whole lot easier and oh soContinue reading “Utah (Snow Canyon, Capitol Reef, Kanarra Falls Slot Canyon, More)”

The lush green of Kauai immediately dominates your senses.  Mix that with the red clay soil and you have a Sedona-like calmness that these two colors are supposed to bring to us humans, but there is no talk of vortexes here.   So many beautiful beaches and oh the 430am rooster crowing is part of theContinue reading “Kauai, Hawaii(May and December)”