Glacier Park

A forest fire burning above Lake McDonald made our trip over the Going to the Sun Highway a little eerie. Traffic and construction gave us more time to take it all out in. But we eventually made it to Logan Pass, where parking was sort of like Friday evening in Ballard. But fifteen minutes of hovering paid off - though we didn't spend much more time than that walking around the visitors center.

The smoke was drifting over the divide and down into the St. Mary Valley and seemed to be getting worse while we watched. We stopped for the requisite photos on the way down - and left some of the smoke behind. Since our last visit (September 2012), much of the north shore of St. Mary Lake has burned (in July 2015). And the pullout at the Wild Goose Island overlook has been expanded - which meant we had to wait for three loads of tourists to get back into their little red buses before we could get some photos without heads and hats in the way.