Alaska 2015 - Day 66 - Columbia Falls MT - Havre MT

Day 66 – 7-16-15 Thursday We departed Columbia Falls RV Park at 7:50AM and headed to Havre Montana about 250 miles away. We were driving on highway 2. It goes around the Southern end of Glacier National Park for about 60-70 miles. We traveled the same road yesterday after we left East Glacier coming back to Columbia Falls. It is a pretty drive up and down hills and around curves.

After driving about 85 miles we were back on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation went through Brownling Montana. There was a building that looked like a Teepee. From this point on landscape went from mountains to rolling open range where we could see for miles across the landscape. We were still on highway 2 and will be on it until sometime tomorrow. We went from curves almost ever 50 yards to every 50 miles. The road runs almost straight across Montana and is a nice easy drive. We began to see more and more cattle and horses.

We stopped in Cut Bank at a McDonald's to take a break and get a snack. The first McDonald's we have been to in awhile. We drove across the street to fuel up the motor home at a fuel station with an easy in and out access. Outside of town was a very large windmill farm. Then we began to see flatter land and huge fields of wheat and hay for as far as we could see across the horizon. The hay was being baled and the wheat was being harvested. They have tall grain elevators along the railroad tracks and hundreds of storage bins on the farms. The trail tracks parallel highway 2.

Coming into Cut Bank Montana

Windmill Farm

Grain Elevators 

Grain Elevators

We drove through Shelby Montana, the town we stayed in for two nights in May before crossing into Canada for the first time. When we got near our campground for the night in Havre Montana I missed the turn off into it so I drove about 2 miles looking for a good place to turn around and finally pulled into a private gravel drive that went up to some farm/ranches so we could unhook the jeep so I could get the motor home turned around. Of course before we could do all this one of the people that lived up the road turned off the road and wanted to get by. But they were patience and let us do our thing without any hassle. We pulled into Evergreen Campground and setup in site 18. We had called about a hour before getting here to see if they had any available sites and this was their last site for tonight. They only have 25 sites. There is not much to choose from in this area. It is not a resort but it is nice with large trees to block the winds that blow through here and all the sites are covered in grass and it is clean and owned and ran by a retired Montana State Trooper and his wife.