Today we drove our rental car from Kalispell (population 14,223) in northwestern Montana to Banff (population 8,721) in western Alberta. Our route took us over both freeway and secondary roads.
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En route we visited Glacier National Park in Montana as well as Waterton Lakes National Park in Alberta.
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We drove Going-to-the-Sun Road across Glacier National Park from west to east in about 2 1/2 hours. We were slowed by road works along the way. Although the weather wasn't so great, the rugged mountains and lakes of Glacier were still nothing if not spectacular. Completed in 1932, Going-to-the-Sun Road, designated both a national historic monument and a national civil engineering monument, crosses the Continental Divide at the 6,646-foot-high Logan Pass. It was extremely cold when we got out of our car and walked to the Logan Pass visitor center.
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For more information on Glacier National Park, visit www.nps.gov/glac/, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacier_National_Park_(U.S.), www.glacier.national-park.com/, and www.glacierparkinc.com/.
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Waterton Lakes is striking because the mountains seem to jut right out of the prairie. Upper Waterton Lake with a depth of 492 feet, is the deepest lake in the Rockies.
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For more information on Waterton Lakes National Park, visit www.pc.gc.ca/pn-np/ab/Waterton/index_e.asp and findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4188/is_20070204/ai_n17199708.
We stayed at the spiffy Banff Springs Hotel. Dinner was at Chili's in Banff.
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The total mileage driven today was 416 miles. Barbara was tired this morning so I drove through most of Glacier National Park, the transit of which required over 2 1/2 hours with several stops. But Barbara drove for the rest of the day.
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I will post pics from today soon.
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