Glacier NP to San Diego Advice
Does anyone have any good recommendations for scenic routes or points of interest going from Glacier NP to San Diego via interstate 15? We'll be taking this trip during the summer.
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I am in the final stages of planning our trip to Glacier this July. I realized that there is incredible country all through the state of Idaho which is often overlooked in going to Glacier, Yellowstone, and the Tetons.
I am routing through Reno to Winnemucca in Nevada and then north on Hwy 93 to Boise. From there we will go to eight wildlife management areas on our way up to Whitefish. After the time in Glacier we are going south through Montana on I-15 with stops planned in Helena (whose museum has one of the best collections of Charles Russel paintings in the country) and to Butte, Virginia City and Nevada City, the Bannack ghost town (only 26 miles from Dillon at I-15), Craters of the Moon National Monument, and so forth.
With this routing we see a great deal of the Idaho wildlife and forest lands and there is no backtracking with the route coming back south through western Montana.
The total mileage is not much different but it will make for a much more interesting trip.
I am routing through Reno to Winnemucca in Nevada and then north on Hwy 93 to Boise. From there we will go to eight wildlife management areas on our way up to Whitefish. After the time in Glacier we are going south through Montana on I-15 with stops planned in Helena (whose museum has one of the best collections of Charles Russel paintings in the country) and to Butte, Virginia City and Nevada City, the Bannack ghost town (only 26 miles from Dillon at I-15), Craters of the Moon National Monument, and so forth.
With this routing we see a great deal of the Idaho wildlife and forest lands and there is no backtracking with the route coming back south through western Montana.
The total mileage is not much different but it will make for a much more interesting trip.
