Sprague Creek

We decided to camp at the Sprague Creek campground for our Glacier trip. It's a small campground with only 25 slots, and tent camping only, no towed vehicles allowed. It's on the west side of the park on the shore of Lake McDonald, about nine miles in from the West Glacier entrance to the park. That proximity to West Glacier sometimes comes in handy as West Glacier has a laundromat and a store.

I personally like the west side of the park for camping. It's on the wetter side of the continental divide, which runs through the park. That area around Lake McDonald has a lot of creeks, and gets a fair amount of rainfall, so the forest there is much different from the drier east side of the park. Rather than the pine forests we see out here and up at Chester, the forested areas near that side of Lake McDonald are more like coastal northwestern forests. A lot of large cedar and hemlock trees, and the undergrowth is lusher. In my opinion, much nicer for tent camping. Even during the hottest part of the day, it's shady and pleasant under all those old growth trees.

Naturally as I'm taking pics of the campground Casey has to choose that moment have a giant bite of her Great Harvest cookie.




As I mentioned above, the campground sits on the shore of Lake McDonald. Here's a couple views. Good sized lake, surrounded by mountains, and the forest often runs right down to the shoreline.