Glacier: Lodging

We enjoyed excellent accommodations on our Glacier trip. We stayed in a vacation rental home in Kalispell, a nicely updated place in Old Town, about half an hour from the park entrance. 

For a family like ours, a house is so much better than a hotel. Okay, you have to hang up your own towels, but in return you get a living room and a kitchen and a deck with a barbecue. In the evenings we plunked down on the long comfy couches and watched the Olympics together. In the mornings we enjoyed breakfast in pajamas. 

One night we camped over on the east side of the park for better access to the Many Glacier area. We stayed at a commercial campground outside the park that had great campsites, very comfortable cabins, resident horses, and intruding cows. It also had a terrific restaurant, Johnson's Cafe, where delicious country food is served family-style. We wish we could have eaten about four more meals there.

We did not stay at any of the beautiful historic lodges, but we enjoyed visiting them. This is Lake McDonald Lodge. I missed Dad here more than almost anywhere else; he loved these old places.