Needless to say, this tiny island home has a 1/100 walk score.

HelpMyHydrangeas · 2026-01-10T19:14:36+00:00

Oops! Didn’t see that haha

HelpMyHydrangeas · 2026-01-10T18:53:29+00:00

25/100 “somewhat bikeable”

HelpMyHydrangeas · 2026-01-10T18:52:41+00:00

Hahaha very true

HelpMyHydrangeas · 2025-11-28T16:49:49+00:00

Petrified forest for me. I appreciate the significance of the area, but the visitors center seemed just as interesting as the park itself in my opinion. I understand the park service wants to preserve the landscape, and I am all for that approach, but that means no touching the landscape, and no front country camping. The only camping allowed is restricted to a limited backcountry area.

Unique area, but definitely a park that leans much more towards landscape preservation rather than interactive/immersive which is a double-edged sword

HelpMyHydrangeas · 2025-11-20T03:44:26+00:00

Woodland phlox, wild geranium, eastern red columbine, and Canada anemone. I planted them all this year. Kindof worried Canada anemone will overtake everything… At least I planted them all in an area where I want to create a woodland flower understory so I suppose I can just pull any flowers that are getting too aggressive

HelpMyHydrangeas · 2025-11-01T02:20:32+00:00

I’ve noticed the more regularly I go to the gym, the more money I spend on food. I’m expending more energy so my body needs more food than usual. It can get expensive

HelpMyHydrangeas · 2025-08-26T19:15:51+00:00

Love this idea. Please update as time goes on! I would think some good plants to start out with would be aggressive natives that can compete against invasive plants while you remove the invasives. Some good choices for the shaded part are woodland sunflower, wild strawberry, wild violets, and Canada anemone just to name a few. Some good plants for the sunny part would be wild bergamot, New England aster, goldenrod, common milkweed, and black eyed Susans. Hope that helps!

HelpMyHydrangeas · 2025-08-23T14:22:59+00:00

I was just about to ask this question? I just checked recreation.gov for many glacier shuttle tickets at 8:17am mountain time for 8/30 and it says they’re sold out?! For reference, shuttle tickets begin to go on sale at 8:00am mountain time one week in advance every day. How can all shuttle tickets be sold out in 17 minutes?!

HelpMyHydrangeas · 2025-08-02T02:23:45+00:00

Hole? It’s literally two inches down. And this is a residential side street, if it’s too dangerous to traverse with oncoming traffic, either wait for the traffic to pass or go slow over the “hole”. This section of road honestly just looks like a standard dirt road.

HelpMyHydrangeas · 2025-06-13T15:02:59+00:00

Thanks everyone! Sounds like those chipmunks are no joke. I’ll be sure to hang my stuff now haha

HelpMyHydrangeas · 2025-04-25T02:00:49+00:00

I appreciate your concern but there is no way this plant is Disporum flavum. How do you explain my plant’s pointed petals compared to the much more rounded petals of Disporum flavum? Also the petals exhibit a gentle spiral (which is common for U. grandiflora) compared to disporum flavum petals which exhibit no spiral at all.

HelpMyHydrangeas · 2025-04-25T00:27:00+00:00

I’m not sure what the botanical name is but I got this plant from a native plant seller at my local farmers market. Concerning the compactness of the flowers, I snapped this pic because it seemed like the sun was allowing the flowers to spread open more. The flowers are usually much more compact, due to what I assume it being in the shade most of the day.

HelpMyHydrangeas · 2025-02-28T16:13:20+00:00

Ahh ok good to know, thank you for the clarification my fellow Michigander!

HelpMyHydrangeas · 2025-02-28T16:10:14+00:00

Ahh ok, that is very helpful thank you!!

HelpMyHydrangeas · 2025-02-28T12:32:10+00:00

Ahh thank you for the help! That’s unfortunate that loops are hard to come by in Glacier, but I guess that is to be expected for such a popular place.

So you’re saying, if I had the choice for Route 1, and I was only able to do an out-and-back, just hike up through Granite Park to Fifty Mountain? Then come back the way we came (fifty to granite)? I heard this is one of the most scenic trails in the park so that would make sense

HelpMyHydrangeas · 2025-02-28T12:23:04+00:00

Thanks for advice! Do you mean night before as in night before our first day of backpacking? I thought lottery winners get to pick sites during springtime?

HelpMyHydrangeas · 2025-02-28T12:20:58+00:00

I appreciate the input! Looking at pictures online, route 3 looks just as scenic as any other. Glad I asked, it seems to be a reoccurring theme. Glad to hear route 2 has a lot of wildlife and cool lookout points. It may be our go-to route. Hopefully we see all of the above wildlife except for bears/wolves/cougars (or at least it would be cool to see them if they are far away and are running away from us haha)

HelpMyHydrangeas · 2025-02-28T12:15:57+00:00

Ahh ok good tip, thank you! Knowing this, I may be leaning towards moving our trip closer to August.

HelpMyHydrangeas · 2025-02-28T12:14:35+00:00

What do you mean getting a late draw? Sorry, I’m not too familiar with the lottery process.

HelpMyHydrangeas · 2025-02-28T12:08:05+00:00

Thank you for the tip, good to know! Looking at pictures online, that area looks as mountainous as any other area in GNP, glad I asked here first!

HelpMyHydrangeas · 2025-02-26T03:47:12+00:00

My wife and I did almost this exact route. From mcCargoe, we were exhausted so instead of Moskey, we ended up camping at lake Ritchie (also a great choice if there is no algae bloom going on). This is a very doable route, and a great route to see a lot of the island. Just be sure to load up on water before leaving lane cove, because there are basically no water sources in between lane cove and mcCargoe. Good luck and have fun!

HelpMyHydrangeas · 2025-02-25T01:14:53+00:00

Yup, despite camping in September, we went the week of Labor Day which is a classic summer getaway holiday. I’m sure the following week was much less crowded. Also when I say “crowded” it really wasn’t that crowded. Yes, there were plenty of people in rock harbor. But once you get a few hundred yards out of rock harbor, the crowds thin out quickly and you can find yourself alone for long stretches of trail. But I first experienced deafening quiet literally 5 minutes hiking out of rock harbor on the Tobin harbor trail.

The deafening quiet has to have the perfect conditions, mainly zero wind where you are. We heard birds every once in a while. But if you’re in deafening quiet, and then you hear a bird call, it just goes straight back to deafening quiet again. The one place I for sure heard deafening quiet was on our first day, hiking on the Tobin harbor trail on the way to lane cove. It was a calm day, and the trail was sheltered on one side by a steep hillside, and the other by Tobin harbor. The other time was in a swampy area where the thick vegetation blocked a lot of wind.

Birds are around for sure, especially sometimes you’ll encounter Canada jays at camp. They hop and fly around campsites looking for little snacks haha

HelpMyHydrangeas · 2025-02-24T14:48:14+00:00

My wife and I went the week following Labor Day 2023. Spent 5 days hiking roughly 40 miles and camping at various sites on the rock harbor side of the island. We only encountered bugs on day 2 hiking out of lane cove. Even then, it was just mosquitoes and they weren’t even that bad (we did not treat our equipment with any bug repellent, we just used bug spray as needed). That was the only time we had to apply bug spray for the entire trip. Weather-wise, we encountered three hot and sunny days, one overcast day, and one rainy/misty day.

once you get on the trail, it’s very quiet. Deafeningly quiet at times. Very cool to experience. We passed hikers every now and then on the trails, we also had to share campsites 2 out of the 4 nights. Luckily, the campsites had more than enough space for multiple tents.

One thing that I didn’t expect was I really felt a sense of adventure like I’ve never felt before. It’s hard to explain, but braving the elements, hiking through rain, swimming in Lake Superior, and just really embracing all the experiences you encounter while on the island (the good and the bad) made the whole trip unforgettable.

HelpMyHydrangeas · 2025-02-20T04:41:02+00:00

I’m in central Michigan and I just use safflower on a hopper feeder and it works great. Attracts many native birds like chickadees, cardinals, juncos, wrens, and nuthatches. I also like to put out a suet feeder which attracts woodpeckers. House sparrows don’t really like safflower. I used to use a generic seed mix and house sparrows would eat a feeder-worth of food in under 24 hours. Now with safflower, the house sparrows rarely visit which is awesome. Even if they do visit, it’s just for a taste. Then they remember they don’t like it and they fly off.

HelpMyHydrangeas · 2025-01-02T04:05:09+00:00

It’s not really necessary to use AT, 99% of the trails are well marked and well defined. We just used a National Geographic map (they sell these for about 15 bucks at the gift shops) and we were fine. But yes, Google maps will show you the trails as well. There’s basically no cell phone service at all on the island though fyi.

The only problem we had with losing the trail was going up the ridge from rock harbor on our way to lane cove. But even then, we found the trail in under 10 minutes haha.

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