Day 9 

After Pray, our next stop was Whitefish, MT. The drive up was going to be a long one, so we stopped at Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest in Butte, MT, to get the boys some exercise. Winter had arrived! There was quite a bit of snow on the ground and Goose loved it! 

Thompson Park – Grading Camp/Milwaukee Road Trail

Once in Whitefish we decided to rent a cabin at the KOA. The cabin was only slightly more expensive than a tent site, but came with a heater and had electricity. 

Our cabin was directly across from the communal bathrooms, which was both good and bad. It was convenient for when we needed to use them. But whenever anyone else needed them in the middle of the night the boys would begin to bark. 

Day 10
We looked into the various hiking trails in the area and decided on one of the Whitefish trails. There weren’t any amazing views, but we enjoyed walking through the woods and the trail was well maintained. 

After our morning hike, we made the short trip to Glacier. Upon arrival we discovered that Going to the Sun Road was closed from the entrance we were using and in order to drive along it, we’d have to drive around the Southern portion of the park and go in through the East entrance. The trip over to the East entrance would have taken 2 hours and then we would have spent at least 2 hours driving through, plus 2 hours back. We were initially going to go for it, but decided it would be too much and it was already later in the day. So, we decided to drive through the portion of the park open from the West entrance. It was beautiful! 

Day 11

We had only planned to stay for two nights, but like Whitefish so much and  we ended up extending our time there an extra day to fit in more hiking and in order to have time to walk around downtown.