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Glacier National Park

Our previous post covered our visits to three national parks located in the Rocky Mountains. This post will cover the final national park in this mountain range, Glacier National Park. Before we get to the highlights of our stay in the area of the park, we need to cover our journey getting there.

National Parks of the Rockies

After leaving Karen’s house in Monument, CO, we headed north with hopes of keeping our original summer plans of seeing some national parks. After looking at potential paths to Grand Teton National Park, we determined it would be a shame to skip Rocky Mountain National Park given how close we were. With that in mind, our first stop would be Estes Park, CO.

Death Valley National Park

We left Sawtooth Canyon and headed for Sunset Campground in Death Valley National Park on Monday, February 24th. We arrived in the mid afternoon to warm weather and clear blue skies. We setup our RV to have our door facing the door of Jim & Corinne’s RV. Once we settled in and started to look at the things we wanted to do, we knew this was going to be an epic stay.

Sawtooth Canyon

From Indio, we knew we wanted to head to Death Valley National Park but needed a place to stay along the route. Jim had located a free BLM campground south of Barstow, CA called Sawtooth Canyon Campground. After having some free waffles (available every Thursday morning at the RV resort) we hooked up and headed for some boondocking adventures.

Rusty’s RV Ranch

Rodeo, NM

Rusty’s RV Ranch is located just north of Rodeo, NM on route 80 and only a mile or two east of the Arizona state line. There are mountains surrounding the park as it is located at the foothills of the Chiricahua range. It is also supposed to be one of the premier places in the country for birding. The park is in a dark sky area and caters to astronomers. This means we were not to have any outdoor lighting at night and to have our shades drawn after dark.