Orcas Island is our favorite of the San Juan Islands, and it makes a perfect weekend getaway from Seattle. We’re big hikers, which means we were a little disappointed to find that there really aren’t too many good hikes on San Juan Island, which is the most visited island in the archipelago. There are tons…
You’re going to Glacier National Park, which means you’re probably going to want to see a glacier at some point. When in Rome, right? The Grinnell Glacier Trail was one of our favorite hikes in Glacier National Park because it leads to the foot of Grinnell Glacier. Along the way, you’ll hike right up to…
Following the Continental Divide that runs through Glacier National Park and the rest of the Rocky Mountains, the Highline Trail is a beautiful hike with breathtaking views around every single bend in the trail. We have done a lot of hikes over the course of the last couple of years when we’ve spent summer and…
Rocky peaks. Dense forest. Blue-green alpine lakes. Tons of wildlife. Glacier National Park is special. Within Glacier National Park, which is in northwestern Montana just south of the Canadian border, there are approximately 730 miles of hiking trails. Over the course of a week in the park, we tackled a whopping 70 of them, averaging…
Alpine lakes. Towering rocky peaks. Moose, mountain goats, and grizzly bears. Glacier National Park, which straddles the Continental Divide, has 700 miles of hiking trails (we tackled 70 miles of them over the course of our week in the park), more than 100 named lakes (and another 500+ that remain unnamed), and a diverse range…
Geothermal pools, bison, plummeting waterfalls, grizzly bears, geysers, and granite peaks — what other place on earth holds all these natural beauties? Yellowstone and Grand Teton are two of the most impressive national parks in the US. With populous large mammal wildlife, geothermal activity unlike anywhere else in the world, and towering peaks full of…