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Family Trip To Yellowstone & Grand Teton
The first week of July finally felt like summer! Michael had the week off work and my brother and his family came out to visit us and experience the magic of Yellowstone and the Tetons. This was part of an epic 3-week trip that my sis-in-law planned for them. Our niece graduated high school and our nephew graduated elementary school so this was the perfect time and I know a lot of memories were made! I completely forgot to get photos of our campsites but we spent 3 nights at Yellowstone Grizzly RV Park in West Yellowstone, Montana, and 3 nights at Fireside Resort in Jackson, WY, and were within…
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Yellowstone Staycation
We started planning our 10-day Yellowstone vacation over a year ago so that we could get reservations to stay inside the park. Michael took time off work and we were calling it our Yellowstone vacation until he said “Wait, isn’t this our Yellowstone staycation since we live here?” There are 12 campgrounds, but a 30 ft travel trailer pushes the size limit of how many campsites actually fit us, so planning ahead was key. Originally, we were splitting our time between 3 campgrounds, Mammoth (north entrance), Madison (west entrance), and Fishing Bridge (east entrance). Sadly, Yellowstone suffered major flood damage in the northern loop earlier this year and those entrances…
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Wild West Montana
A series of errors on my part led us to Bearmouth RV Park, 35 miles east of Missoula. I think our amazing campsite at Two Medicine in Glacier National Park went to my head and I began to believe every campsite should be that perfect. Months before, I had booked a mediocre campsite in a mediocre state park, which I hastily canceled when I saw a great site open up at a great state park. Afterward, I started to worry about the internet, so I canceled that one too. So, we left Two Medicine early and while Michael drove, I researched private RV parks. We had a long, but beautiful…
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Glacier National Park, Part II
After 10 days on the west side of Glacier National Park, we moved over to the east side to finish out the week. We stayed at St. Mary campground, a no hookup national park campground. Michael took a few vacation days, plus it was his birthday! The St. Mary entrance is connected to the west entrance via the Going to the Sun Road but since our truck alone is over the length restrictions, you obviously can’t tow any kind of trailer, and we took a long way around. The east side of Glacier is bordered by the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, and it feels less crowded and very remote. The prairie…
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Glacier National Park, Part I
One of our main summer destinations this year was Glacier National Park and it was perfect. When I was planning over 6 months ago, I was worried that we’d be dealing with haze and wildfire smoke that frequently occurs in the area. But we had beautiful clear days for the 3 weeks we were there. Ironically, a wildfire increased our time at the park from 2 to 3 weeks when one broke out at our next destination, Flathead Lake. Our Alltrails app tells us that we paddled for 8.5 miles and hiked for 88 miles over 3 weeks (and Michael took nearly a week of vacation over that time). We…
