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Glacier National Park with Kids and Teens: Western Half Edition

September 17, 2023 by kokotg 2 Comments

milo paddle boarding on Lake McDonald

travel dates: July 2022 Several years ago we went to Lassen Volcanic National Park in early July and found massive mounds of snow still blocking park roads and cutting us off from many of the park’s biggest attractions. Some research confirmed that we were exceptionally unlucky; the park websites has records listing the date the […]

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Filed Under: 2022 Mountains, hiking, montana, national parks

West Glacier KOA Resort: A Fancy Campground Review

August 22, 2023 by kokotg 1 Comment

Mountain View from West Glacier KOA

travel dates: July, 2022 KOA is fairly stingy about handing out their “resort” designation. KOAs are labeled “journey,” “holiday,” or “resort” based on level of amenities, but, of the more than 500 KOAs, only 17 are currently resorts. We’ve stayed at a couple of different ones and have sometimes felt the resort label was a wee bit […]

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Filed Under: 2022 Mountains, Campground Reviews, montana

Three Days in Missoula, Montana with Kids and Teens

August 1, 2023 by kokotg Leave a Comment

long grass on l trail

Travel dates: July, 2022 We love a good college town, and Missoula is an excellent college town. We spent three days there last July, which felt like a good amount of time to see a lot of the city. Missoula offers a great blend of urban and outdoorsy stuff to do, something Montana in general excels at. […]

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Jim and Mary’s RV Park in Missoula, MT: Campground Review

May 1, 2023 by kokotg Leave a Comment

statue and garden bed at Jim and Mary's RV Park

travel dates: July, 2022 Jim and Mary’s RV Park! Sounds so friendly, doesn’t it? Don’t you just want to go hang out with Jim and Mary around the campfire? Well, you can’t, because Jim and Mary sold the RV park over 20 years ago. But! The good news is the current owners are also friendly, […]

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Butte, Montana with Kids and Teens: Superfun and Superfund (and the Butte KOA)

April 23, 2023 by kokotg 2 Comments

kids in front of Berkeley Pit

travel dates: July, 2022 I couldn’t resist the Superfund wordplay in the title up there. I tried. It’s true that we really enjoyed Butte, though, more than we thought we would, even though we didn’t get to do any of things we’d planned to do there. Superfund is a program established by Congress in 1980 […]

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Bozeman, Montana with Kids and Teens (and farewell to the Inn on the Gallatin)

April 14, 2023 by kokotg Leave a Comment

going down the M trail in Bozeman

travel dates: June, 2022 Like with so many drives during our summer of mountains, I was a little worried about the one that would take us from Brigham City, Utah to Bozeman, Montana. And as with all of the drives, I needn’t have worried. With the help of the Mountain Driving Directory and a good […]

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Yellowstone Grizzly RV Park and West Yellowstone, MT: Campground Review and MORE!

January 19, 2018 by kokotg 1 Comment

Travel dates: June 17-21, 2017 We stayed in a lot of fairly rustic campgrounds last summer, which is not something we mind….but the tidy, pristinely landscaped Yellowstone Grizzly RV Park, with its orderly grid of well-kept campsites was a welcome mid-trip oasis. We loved the town of West Yellowstone itself, too: compact and walkable and […]

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Filed Under: 2017 Cross Country Trip, Campground Reviews, montana, museums and attractions

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