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Glacier National Park (sort of) – Shelby Montana to Moscow Idaho

Getting Off on the Wrong Foot

Things didn’t begin well for my visit to Glacier. First I found the antique reservation system the National Park Service uses makes it virtually impossible to use unless you are willing to hover over your computer six months in advance as if you were sniping an eBay auction. Private parks weren’t a great option either, as they were cashing in on the situation and charging in the neighborhood of a hundred bucks a night to stay at a KOA outside the gates.

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Michigan NorthCentral UP – Munising & Pictured Rocks

One of the reasons operations like the one in Fayette closed down was the growth of the steel industry closer to their industrial customers. The iron ore was still being sourced from the same area on the West end of Lake Superior, but now it was being carried down through the Soo Locks by big freighters like the Edmond Fitzgerald. I wanted to see the business end of the greatest of the Great Lakes, so I headed back up North to the town of Munising and the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore.

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Below the Surface

With more legal paperwork complete and the camper freshly repaired, I turned north to the hills of central Kentucky. The plan was to escape the summer heat and thunderstorms that had come to the South by going underground at Mammoth Cave National Park.

Typical of US National Parks, Mammoth Cave offers really nice tent camping sites which I had used on my previous visit, but no sites for RVs with water and electric hookups. Because of this I opted for a nearby state park, just a few miles North of the National Park boundary. Nolin Lake State Park, near Bee Spring, Kentucky is a small but well-maintained park on the Nolin Lake reservoir. The state park adjoins land controlled by the Corps of Engineers, who are responsible for the dam as well. Continue reading “Below the Surface”