Kootenay National Park (Canada)

Sunday, June 28,

Departed West Glacier and headed up Hwy US 93 toward Canada, this part of Montana is as beautiful as any other part.
Cafe Jax
If you ever pass through Eureka, MT, you have to stop here for something to eat. Breakfast was awesome.


Crusing northbound, Rockies on both sides.

Great roads. Great views.

Our first glimpse of the Canadian Rockies.

Entering the Kootenay National Park, this sets the tone for what is to come.

A number of sightings of mountain goats, a few big horn sheep as well.

The road follows the Kootenay River much of the way.

The river, lots of trees and towering mountains.

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Downtown Banff

Resevoir just outside Cochrane, Aberta.

It is impossible to properly photograph the mountains in a way to depict their grandeur. The key difference in what one experiences here is that you drive through them on very nice easy roads and view them at a bit of a distance. As opposed to Glacier Park or Beartooth Highway where one drives narrow roads that actually climbs the mountains and goes along the edges. However the Canadian Rockies are no less spectacular.