a word of advice

When you go to Glacier National Park, drive into it from the east. There's nothing quite like churning out the miles of farmland plains on Hwy. 2, then cresting a small rise and having a line a mountains pop up on the horizon.
After their initial appearance, the peaks hang there, hazy in the distance despite your best efforts to decrease the distance, until the granite finally gives in slightly and moves into clear focus.


Continue into the park via St. Mary's and the Going-to-the-Sun Road, and the vantage points are better from the east as well. You get to roll up into the hanging valleys and Logan Pass, then take in the vista of a glacier valley with dimensions and suddenness you can't easily comprehend.


The sights from Going-to-the-Sun will stun you into silence no matter what, but I'm telling you, come in from the east. (Even though that means you don't get to start in beauty. It just makes sights all the better in the end).