Traffic, Glacier National Park

Lane Striping - Montana  2024

Parking Lot, Visitor Center - Glacier National Park  2024

My first visit to Glacier National Park featured lots of traffic delays. At the beginning, there was a backup due to lane striping taking place. Went on for quite some time.

Then, inside the park: road construction featuring multiple one-lane closures. Not fun.

The visitor center itself was nicely uncrowded, though. I talked with a ranger about solo hiking in the park (had read that solo hiking wasn't advisable due to bears). She said that if one was normally comfortable with solo hiking that it shouldn't be a problem. Her experience with bear spray: she had it out of its holster once - but hadn't had to use it. By the way - bear spray is expensive, around $50 per canister. In the end I didn't do any hiking in the park.

The Going-To-The-Sun road hadn't been cleared yet, which I expected. But you could drive up to where it was closed, which I did. Alas, it was a mob scene up there. It seemed that, although the park was relatively uncrowded in May, a lot of the visitors that were there were trying to park somewhere, anywhere at the end of the road. So I turned around and escaped downwards.