Sunday September 27th was the first full day that Margarit and I spent in Waterton. We were staying in a room up on the fifth floor of the historic Prince of Wales Hotel. The hotel will celebrate it's centennial in 2027. Our room faced Upper Waterton Lake, the deepest lake in the Canadian Rockies. The far end of the lake is actually across the international border in Glacier National Park, Montana.
We had a leisurely breakfast in the Royal Stewart Dining Lounge, and then set out for a day of exploring. We took Margarit's little Toyota Tacoma on this trip, because the price of diesel fuel is out of control, and it costs almost a dollar a liter more than gasoline right now. My truck, even though it gets really good mileage, would have been a lot more expensive to travel with.
The day dawned partly sunny, without too much wind, so after breakfast we set out exploring. We decided to take a drive up the Akamina Parkway. This 15km road follows Cameron Creek, all the way from the Waterton townsite to Cameron Lake. Along the way there are a bunch of trailheads, as well as the first oil well drilled in western Canada.
Lightning started a large forest fire in the park in 2017 and it burnt three quarters of the trees in the park in a single day. The evidence of the fire is everywhere. We spent the early afternoon exploring a number of the burnt areas and taking a bunch of photographs.
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