Day 13 (a travel day) Bozeman to West Glacier, MT  ( 336.7 miles)  new total miles ( 3162.8 )
Left Bozeman early in the smoke & haze.  The fires in the Grand Tetons and southern Utah are blowing into the southern Montana regions and all views are very smoky.

Outside of Bozeman

fires approaching Glacier

Flathead Lake

The drive west saw rolling pastures, active ranches in the distance and many abandoned homes near the highway. Crossed the Continental Divide again (elevation 6393) on the way  to Missoula where we stopped at the McKenzie River Pizza Co. for lunch.  (Craig and I had stopped there for lunch in 2004 when we drove to Seattle. I wore the t-shirt I bought back then).   North of Missoula the road took us east of Flathead Lake (almost 40 miles long) along the edge of the mountains.





 Most road signs were in both English & Native American (I believe Flathead - as this is their original tribal area - later the Salish & Kootenai migrated here from the south & east to escape their enemies the Blackfeet)).  The area also had many orchards of cherries & apples.

 As we got closer to Glacier the size of the mountains increased substantially as we were approaching the northern spine of the Rockies in the lower US.

Approaching Glacier