Kalispell

Hello,

i am wondering if Kalispell is a tourist town... and the place where people stay when they visit the west side of Glacier National park.

i am also wondering about july 4th activities around Kalispell.

Kalispell

When people visit GNP, they generally stay in GNP, or just outside the park in places like Babb, Hungry Horse and Columbia Falls. Maybe Whitefish. Kalispell is a great little city, but it is about an hour%26#39;s drive from GNP. There are lots of places that are much closer. If you are flying into Kalispell and the town interests you, perhaps you might want to spend a day there when you arrive, and then stay somewhere closer to the park for the rest of your vacation.

Kalispell

Thanks Campgirl,

Thanks for your help - we are trying to decide if we want to stay in kalispell for the second night or get into McDonald Lodge...

our schedule goes. fly into billings, spend two days at yellowstone lodges, then drive up to glacier.

we will be spending the first night at the hilton in Kalispell and are booked for Mc Donald lodge the next 2 nights...

the complicatioin arrives from deciding to use a travel coupon which is for a 2 night stay (hilton) or just to go as planned and get into mcdonald lodge.

and then spending 10/9 days in glacier/waterton

the coupon is a little bit of a savings - but if it is a pain to travel between kalispell and glacier - then the ';easy thing to do'; is more important...

if kalispell is a tourist town (like a lot of them - they are cute and fun to walk around in and stuff) if it is a regular town - we have that there - and up in wisconsin... the cute small town thing...

so trying to get a feel for the city of kalispell... sounds like a cute small town - but, not really the tourist thing...

but, i guess the main thing is the drive - is it worth it to save money to drive between the 2...

hilton sounds like a really nice place to stay... so is it worth the drive and the money savings...

but, we are on vacaton to see wildlife... so that it glacier - in the park...

i am leaning towards staying in the park :)

but, not sure

i guess when thinking about this...

if we wanted to walk around a more scenic place we could go to bigfork - or to whitefish for a while...

i guess that the thing is the drive between the park and kalispell... an hour sounds like to much

thanks for your help campgirl - i like your name...

hello,

we ended up with our reservations for this summer being Hilton for one night and then moving onto Glacier and staying at Mc Donald Lodge for two nights.

thanks for everyone%26#39;s help with this