Roadtrip Day 4 Waterton NP, AB to Medicine Hat, AB

In the morning we went for breakfast and coffee at the Waterton Bagel & Coffee Co., where we spoke with Tom the proprietor's son whose family also owns the small movie theater in Waterton and Pincher Creek. We had a long pleasant conversation about the park, movies and people he has met working the summers in Waterton.

Tom

After breakfast while packing the car, a reporter from Global TV in Lethbridge approached us and asked if she could ask some questions about the Government's freezing park fees in an effort to encourage visitation. View Rhett on TV here. Select the May 25 video, Rhett is at 7:37

It was time to get out and explore the park a little before moving on. First we took a short drive to Cameron Falls, then we took a drive to Cameron Lake, frozen and rimmed with snow covered mountains. That's Montana on the other side! We had the place to ourselves not one other car in the parking lot. The interpretive sign warns of grizzlies. We enjoyed the serenity of a place that is usually jammed with visitors at the peak of the season. On the way down we stopped at a look out and caught a glimpse of Cameron Creek 1000 feet or 300 meters below us leading down to Upper Waterton Lake. A lazy Bighorn sheep lay at the side of the road barely giving us a glance as we passed by on the way down. We then took the drive to Red Rock Canyon where we took a short walk along the canyon itself, the bedrock is strikingly red. We then took a short hike to Blakiston Falls, a thundering cascade and once again few if any people. Leaving the park, we watch the mountains shrink in our rearview mirror again, this time for good. :-( Soon the memory of the mountains will be overtaken by views of grassland horizons. We head east towards Medicine Hat.