Camas Road - Glacier National Park

The Camas Creek Cutoff Road, also known as Camas Road, is an 11.7-mile two-lane paved road between the Going-to-the-Sun Road at the Apgar Visitor Center in Glacier National Park and North Fork Road in the Flathead National Forest. Construction on the road began in 1960 and was completed in 1967 at a cost of $2.5 million. It was originally intended to be part of a proposed International Loop Road that would connect Glacier National Park with Canada's Waterton National Park. Ultimately, Camas Road was the only portion of the route that was ever constructed. 

The route has two major bridges with one over McDonald Creek and the other over the North Fork Flathead River. The McDonald Creek bridge is located ½ mile northwest of the Going-to-the-Sun Road intersection and the North Fork Flathead River Bridge is near the other end of the route just 0.2 miles from North Fork Road. Except for the northwestern-most 0.2 miles beyond the North Fork bridge located in the Flathead National Forest, nearly the entire route is within Glacier National Park. 

Near the Going-to-the-Sun Road intersection, the road provides access to the village of Apgar, the Fish Creek Campground, and Rocky Point and Lake McDonald trails. Further northwest, it provides access to the Huckleberry Lookout Trail and the Forest and Fire Nature Trail, formerly the Huckleberry Mountain Interpretive Trail.

We visited this western side of the park in May 2021.

Mount Cannon (8952'), Mount Brown (8565'), Edwards Mountain (9072'),
Gunsight Mountain (9258'), and Mount Jackson (10052')

A closer look at Mount Jackson

McGee Meadow

Mount Vaught (8850') and Stanton Mountain (7750') from McGee Meadow

Mount Brown, Edwards Mountain, and Gunsight Mountain from McGee Meadow

Apgar Mountains from the Huckleberry Mountain trailhead

A Glacier National Park entry fee of $35 per vehicle, $30 per motorcycle, or $20 per person is valid for seven consecutive days. Other fee payment options include the America the Beautiful - National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands passes including the Annual Pass ($80), Senior Pass ($80 for a lifetime), Access Pass (free with a documented disability), and Military Annual Pass (free for active-duty personnel). Also available is a Glacier Annual Pass for $70. 

The Glacier National Park website is https://www.nps.gov/glac/index.htm.