Devil’s Creek

We left Hill City on Father’s Day and drove 12 hours to Great Falls MT where we spent the night in a Walmart parking lot before heading towards Glacier National Park.  Coming from the east we passed on the south end of the park and camped in the Devil’s Creek National Forest campground.

Devil’s Creek looks more like a roaring river than a creek but it is very pretty.  We hiked up the mountain beside the creek about a mile where there were some steep cascades/waterfalls.  John was able to rock hop across the creek and we could have gone on but I was not willing to chance a slip into the water so we turned around.  I love all the spring wild flowers but especially the Bear Grass flower that is found only in this region.

We also took a short drive back to the Continental Divide where there is a memorial monument to Teddy Roosevelt who set aside all this land for Glacier National Park, the 7th in the nation.