Many Glacier

On our last day in Glacier, we said goodbye to our apartment in Kalispell and drove the entire length of the Going to the Sun Road over to the east side of the park to the area known as Many Glacier.  We were able to stay one night at the historic Many Glacier Hotel inside the park right on the shores of Swiftcurrent Lake.  This lodge was originally built in 1915 by the Great Northern Railway Company. It has a large four story lobby with giant wooden timbers and hallways that overlook the lobby.  Our room has a balcony we share with the adjacent room that looks out right over the lake and the mountains.   Unfortunately we were only able to stay one night, but this is definitely the place to stay when on this side of the park.

There are two places to stay inside the park in the Many Glacier area -- the Many Glacier Hotel and the Swiftcurrent Motor Inn.  It was down the road from the Swiftcurrent Motor Inn that the trailhead starts where we were able to see the moose.  For all the ambiance and charm of the Many Glacier Hotel, the dining is apparently not very good.  We saw the reviews on TripAdvisor that weren't all that positive.  Our neighbors that shared the balcony with us confirmed it.  Fortunately for us, there's a pizza/Italian place at the Swiftcurrent Motor Inn.  The TripAdvisor reviews were favorable and we got a pizza to go and ate on our balcony while watching the sunset.  A much better ending to our day than eating in the hotel dining room.

The view from our balcony