Glacier
Link to the album Glacier National Park - The Dawn Wall Radium Hot Springs/Kooteney National Park Day 1 Of all the big parks in the National Park System, there’s very few of the “big” (read famous) parks that we haven’t been to and the biggest we've yet to visit is Glacier, the Crown Jewel of the Rockies. Known for its glaciers and jagged peaks, wildlife and the engineering marvel known as Going-To-The-Sun Road. With ‘big’ parks like Glacier, Yosemite and Yellowstone you have to start planning quite a ways out and then with some luck it will all fall into place for you. Last year, we tried to play the planning game with Yosemite but due to a record breaking snow pack the previous winter the section of the park that we hadn’t visited was still closed when we were due to go there. Glacier tried to set us up this year with a snow fall in late August that actually closed Going-To-The-Sun Road but seems like the snow was short lived but Glacier is last on ...