Temperance River State Park September 23-25, 2016

Last camping trip of the year. We headed to the North Shore of Minnesota. Temperance River State Park is a great park with lots of hiking trails, a bike path across the road from the campground, waterfalls in the park and close distance to other state parks and Grand Marais.

Jay Cooke State Park - August, 2016

Jay Cooke State Park is located about 15 miles south of Duluth, MN. The weather wasn't the greatest for us during our visit, but we got in about 25 miles of biking and a couple of hikes. This park is famous for the swinging bridge. Most of the sites are too small for us, but there are a couple that we fit in and the drive through site was perfect. Very private and big. 

Welcome sign

 One of the hiking trails

 Swinging bridge

Kettle River

We saw a few folks white water rafting along the river.

 Our site

Sibley State Park - August, 2016

Sibley State Park is a very popular park in the summer. They just added electric in the upper campground so we'll be excited to camp in that area next time. 

View of Lake Andrew

 Dock on Lake Andrew

Hiking trail 

 Another view of the lake/picnic area

Lac Qui Parle State Park July, 2016

We camped at Lac Qui Parle State Park in July. We hadn't been here in probably 20 years. They revamped the lower campground and added the upper campground. The campgrounds are about 5 miles apart on opposite sides of the Lac Qui Parle River/Lake. The park is very spread out. The lower campground is woodsy and you can tell it can get very wet down there. The upper campground is basically and old corn field. They have added some trees, but they aren't very big yet. The sites are some of the best state park sites we've ever been in. They have many drive throughs and the back in sites are huge. You have lots of space and some of the sites have full hooks ups as well. This park is great if you are just looking to get away, relax and enjoy the peace and quiet.

Sign to the upper campground

 Lower campground road

Lower campground picnic shelter

Old Mission area about 1 miles from the upper campground.

Old Mission

Inside the Old Mission

 Dam about a mile from the upper campground - we saw many people fishing here. There is a Core of Engineer picnic area on either side of the dam.

 View of Lake along the road from upper to lower campground

 Another view of the lake along the road 

Sunset taken from our campsite

View of the upper campground. 

Glacier National Park July 1 - 9, 2016

We did a road trip with our fifth wheel to Glacier National Park over the 4th of July. We've been to Montana a couple of times, but hadn't been to Glacier yet.

We drove from St. Cloud to Williston, ND the first day and stayed at the Lewis and Clark ND State Park. The park is very nice - a bit out of the way - but the sites are large, we had full hook ups and it was a great place to relax for the night.

Playground in the background - dump station in the foreground

Bathrooms

One of the sites - they are all pretty much like this - they also have quite a few pull throughs.

View of the Missouri River from the campground

Day 2 we arrived at Glacier. We stayed at the East side KOA for the entire week. This was a great location to see all of the things we wanted to do.

view from our campsite

Campground

Our first day we drove up to Logan's Pass stopping many times on the way.

Rams below

Logan's Pass

Day 3 was 4th of July and we drove to Many Glacier where we did a boat tour, walked through the lodge and did a short hike.

The next day we headed back up the Going to the Sun Road by-passing all of the stops we did the first day and did the entire west side. We visited McDonald Lake/Lodge area, East Glacier, walked the Trail of the Cedars and stopped at many other turn offs. 

Marmot

One of the red tour buses

Start of the Trail of the Cedars

Saw this mule deer just outside of the McDonald Lodge area.

McDonald Lodge

Cabins on Lake McDonald

Lake McDonald

More views of the McDonald Lodge

Saw these 2 guys near Logan's Point on the way back.

The next day we went to Two Medicine where we hiked to the falls, then went down to the lake and did a bit of shopping in the store. We also went to East Glacier to see the lodge and had lunch at the lodge. 

Two Medicine store

Two Medicine Lake

East Glacier Lodge

Our last full day we went to Waterton Park in Canada. We saw the Prince of Wales hotel, ate lunch in Waterton Village and drove the Red Rock Canyon drive where we finally saw a grizzly bear.

Prince of Wales hotel

These 2 were just outside the border crossing. 

We left early morning and I got this great shot right from outside the camper.