In 1932 the final approval happened to create the Glacier-Waterton International Peace Park. This giant preserve of 1,766 square miles is made up of the conjoined Glacier National Park in the US and Waterton National Park in Alberta, Canada.
We drove from Glacier to Waterton to spend several days at Waterton at the historic Prince of Wales Hotel.
The Prince of Wales, one of eleven hotels built by the Northern Pacific Railroad, was built in 1926-27 and was opened when The Prince of Wales (the future Edward VIII, who abdicated) was on a trip to Canada. It was names thusly to try to entice him to visit Waterton. He did not come, but, Trish and I did!
Our room was on the top floor right at the center peak and we had a glorious view right down the middle of Waterton Lake day and night. We couldn’t stop looking!
The little village of Waterton down below the hotel has a population of about seventy year-round. The winters are very harsh here with average daily winds of about forty miles per hour. The lake freezes solid. Our hotel only has a four month open season from mid-May to mid-September. We had perfect days of beautiful weather with the highs in the 70’s. They told us we got the very best days of the short summer.
We were here by the full moon!
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