Huckleberry Valley and the Hoodoos…

Today we drove from Three Forks, MT to Shelby, MT to stay overnight on our way to Alaska! The drive between Helena and Great Falls was absolutely gorgeous!

This road was cut right through the mountain range and it was really cool! In the picture above you can see a bridge we went over and how the road seems to go right through the mountains.

We crossed over the Missouri River several times. There were quite a few people out on the river enjoying the beautiful weather. This area is breathtakingly gorgeous!

I can’t remember where I found this place. It was during one of my many research stints…and really it was just a mere mention and a photo. It took us a couple of hours on the computer using Google Maps to actually find it and then figure out how to get there. So, today we got to Shelby early enough to make the 45 min drive out to the middle of nowhere to see if what we worked so hard to find was actually worth it. We drove for awhile on a dirt road that turned so narrow it looked more like someone’s driveway which made us a little nervous thinking maybe we were trespassing, but we kept going…turned a corner…and found this… And the Oooos and ahhhhs started. We had the whole place to ourselves, but there were signs of some heavy partying. Glass shards and tin cans were everywhere. It’s such a shame people go to these places and feel like they have to trash them.

The rock formations in the picture above are called hoodoos. These are some of the smaller ones. They were really fantastic! We could have spent several hours picking our way through them! In the left photo above you can see the boys in a small arch we found.

Yes, yes…I know…it’s a weed, but it’s so gosh darn pretty!! I couldn’t resist.

And this is Huckleberry Valley. I didn’t see any huckleberries…I don’t know why it’s called that…but it is beautiful!

We had a great time exploring on our last afternoon in the Lower 48 for a while. Tomorrow we head into Canada and to start our journey all the way up to Alaska!

See y’all down the road!

#alaskabound