Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta, Canada.

A forty-minute drive gets you into Canada and to the town of Waterton, on the banks of Waterton Lake, in Waterton Lakes National Park. Got it?

Waterton Lakes Park  in Canada and Glacier in the U.S. are combined into a single international park under the auspices of the U.N.

Waterton is a small vacation town, blessed with a hundred-year-old masterpiece of a hotel, built during the days when the railroad barons opened the west. This is the Prince of Wales hotel:

The hotel is masterfully situated with a commanding view over the lake:

The sky conditions were awful for good crisp photographs, so that is the best I could manage.

True to form in the North, the Akamina road to Cameron Lake was closed for repairs. They have nine months of weather which destroys the roads, then try to fix the damage in three months. Losing game for the visitors, both at the Going to the Sun Road in Glacier NP and here, but easily understood. Given the closure of Akamina, I took a run out to Red Rock Canyon:

It is a small place, which I kept invidiously comparing to our own version in Vegas, but I digress. The rocks were really a bright red from a high concentration of rusting iron particles embedded in the sandstone.

Another local attraction is Cameron Falls (Cameron got around). It is near town, very accessible, and you can climb to the top:

Finally, I was given a warm welcome by the local citizens wherever I went. The youngsters showed great curiosity:

Adorable little fella, eh? The adults take some getting used to: 

You don't want to get into a fight in a bar with that guy!

Please scroll down to the wrap up on Glacier National Park which I just added before this post. With luck, I'll have good Internet broadband along the way and can upload some more videos.

The road goes ever onward...