A fossil fuel fueled travel blog
After we hiked to Cyclone Lookout, we continued south on the North Fork Road, hoping to find a campsite that was close to the West Glacier entrance to the park. We had heard that we needed to get into the park early to be able to get a parking spot near the hikes we wanted…
Jenn gave us some good hiking and camping recommendations in the Whitefish Range so we dropped the trailer at their house and then headed back north for our first car/ tent camping of the trip. The Whitefish range is west of glacier and runs up to Canada. We made our way on gravel roads through…
On a map, nothing in Montana looks too far away, but it is a big state and the mountains do tend to make straight line travel a little difficult. It was about an hour from Jenn and James’s to the Upper Stillwater Campground and when we started looking around, we realized that we would probably…
We decided to head west across North Dakota on Route 2, but popped down to 94 to check out something that I saw a little of on a previous trip. My friend Tina and I visited Glacier several years ago and were intrigued by the Enchanted Highway as we passed by, but did not have…
We enjoyed paddleboard camping so much the first time that we immediately started looking for other opportunities. We decided to head northwest toward the Island River Canoe Route the next day. Before doing so, we wanted to take a little rest day and just enjoy paddling around Whitefish Lake. We headed around the edge of…
It has long been one of our goals to paddle board camp and we finally made it happen. After our ordeal of a day trying to get to an inland lake, we finally landed at Whitefish Lake. The regular campground was closed, but we found a dispersed site just down the road that was perfect:…
Moving campsites is always a bit of an ordeal: packing up, stowing, organizing, etc. You would think that having a trailer would make it easier, but it really is not. On top of the normal camping stuff to put away (getting the truck packed up, putting away hammocks, chairs, and clotheslines, etc.), we now have…
We had a stretch of cooler days, so decided to focus on non-water activities for a bit. Just down the road from our campsite, the Superior Hiking Trail crossed the road at Britton Peak. This trail head seemed to be a hub for a lot of activities: trails exclusively for cross-country skiing and snowshoeing, a…
While we are planning on being out “in nature” a lot, we really weren’t planning on having a lot of run-ins with wildlife. We have enjoyed the antics of the red squirrels and chipmunks that run around our sites, yelling at each other and eating any scraps we may drop. We haven’t enjoyed the hitchhikers…
We headed north from Silver Bay looking for our next find from freecampsites.net. North of Tofte, MN, we found the Oxbow Rustic Campground off Sawbill Trail. There were four sites at this campground and we lucked out at site #2 – room for the trailer, a picnic table and fire pit at the main site…