WHITEFISH, MONTANA is a sweet mountain ski/hike/bike/kayak town located just south of the Canadian border and a short 30-minute drive east to Glacier National Park. Some of our national treasures, like GNP, are on a lottery system to enter these days. If you have a secured campsite (resvs made months ahead!) or booked a boat tour on Lake McDonald, BOOM! you are in the park. If not, you’re online at 8:00 a.m. every day to secure one of 125 tickets available to enter GNP. I, unfortunately, was not one of the lucky ones. So our mornings would begin at the beautiful, fenced 5-acre dawg park or heading to Polebridge, MT to pick up a warm, huckleberry turnover while our afternoons were spent in town or biking Lion Mountain from our campsite.
Lion Mountain was one grueling ride up (for me) and a heart-pounding ride all the way back down into town but the views were worth the ride. In the parking lot at Lion Mountain we met Sherry from the East Coast and chatted about Whitefish, e-bikes and my disappointment in not being able to secure a ticket into GNP. I was shocked when she pulled out a pass that had to be used the next day and with a tear in my eye, thanked her for her kind gesture. You see, she was also online every morning and eventually got a ticket, but her local friends also had one to surprise her. Being at the right place at the right time; chatting up someone with a smiling face; call it serendipity but what it did was change up our visit in a magical way. Stay tuned!
Camp Dawg 