I just got back home.
The park is a zoo today. I came back via the GTTS road. Went through the St Mary entrance about 10AM.
Stopping along the way for pics I passed Logan Pass at 11AM. The parking lot entrance was blocked and Ranger was waving people by except for shuttles.
Virtually ever place one could pull over
legally had cars parked there.
DO NOT park where you shouldn't because you WILL get ticketed, and it's expensive. I saw red tickets on many cars.
This is especially true in the Many Glacier area between the turn for the hotel and Swiftcurrent Inn.
If the parking at Apgar Visitor center, Logan Pass, St Mary Visitor Center, Many Glacier Hotel, or the Swiftcurrent Inn is your destination for the day...
You best arrive there as
early as you possibly can.
Campers, if you do not have a reservation, you need to have a Plan B because camping spots are
tough to get if you don't.
The web site information is necessarily always up top date. DO NOT count on it to be accurate.
I didn't know about the hard side camping restrictions until I read the posts above this morning.
That makes the situation for us tent campers even more difficult. So be aware of that situation.
I saw bears all over the place Thursday and Friday, and another grizzly near St Mary this morning.
Good luck everyone. Patience is a virtue these days!
I'll have some pictures and videos later posted down in Photography. Might be this evening.
Gotta get my gear dried out and stowed. The weather sucked yesterday hiking back from Grinnell Glacier--
wind, rain, hail, and sleet! Typical GNP weather
I had some luck yesterday with big horn sheep, a nannie with twins, and a close encounter with young grizzly bear at 5-20yards
And this morning as I was breaking down my camp, I got some really fun video and pics of a tree swallow family who had a nest in my tent site at Johnson's. campground.
pete