Activities between Seattle and Glacier NP
In August we are driving with our travel trailer from Seattle to Glacier NP. Usually we like to split up the days with a couple activities like caverns, interesting gorges or rock formations, and hist...
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Route 2 is best choice for "local" scenery. Grand Coulee Dam is an obvious stop. Study the "scablands" area of WA, formed by the collapse of glacial lakes as climate warmed last time. There are several state parks related to the geologic consequences of square miles of water flowing toward the Columbia delta.
Read the Great Fire by Timothy Egan, a history of the largest forest fire in the US history to date (about 1910). Go to Wallace ID on US 2 at the ID/MT border to see the area discussed in the book. A railroad line that has been turned into a bike trail offers a great ride through the fire area. You go east on RT2 from Wallace and then start a steady coasting for about 10 miles from the top of a pass. Biking is paved and goes through 7-8 tunnels, some over a mile long (need a light for these) and over 300-foot steet trestles that have replaced the railroad bridges.
If you read more about Rt 2, I sure there is plenty to do before you get to Glacier.
Read the Great Fire by Timothy Egan, a history of the largest forest fire in the US history to date (about 1910). Go to Wallace ID on US 2 at the ID/MT border to see the area discussed in the book. A railroad line that has been turned into a bike trail offers a great ride through the fire area. You go east on RT2 from Wallace and then start a steady coasting for about 10 miles from the top of a pass. Biking is paved and goes through 7-8 tunnels, some over a mile long (need a light for these) and over 300-foot steet trestles that have replaced the railroad bridges.
If you read more about Rt 2, I sure there is plenty to do before you get to Glacier.
