If you are dreaming of doing this, I recommend you get a Lifetime National Parks Pass ($10) and a Canadian Parks pass ($60), this will make it possible for you to stay in parks for as little as $10 a night.
In the east my favorite place was Nova Scotia’s Cape Breton National Park, where you can see moose in the morning and watch whale and spot puffin in the afternoon. You know you are far north when the road signs change from beware of deer to beware of moose!
The area is full of fun activities, kayaking, whale watching, good seafood restaurants and lively Celtic music, with friendly folk who are happy to help if you get lost. Most all speak English so no worries there. I did not make it to Labrador, (I was shy of the ferry) but I was told the people there are the friendliest in the world, eager for the visitors and happy to show off their rugged wild land.
Instead of going to Katahdin, I drove around to the north and found a wonderful campground called Metagamon Wilderness Campground, a delightful place with many hikes, a rushing river, good fishing, a well-supplied general store that held a very good local restaurant too. Not crowded at all, in all a better find.
I choose to drive the northern route around the great lakes and found Lake Superior Provencal Park to be spectacular! It had good camping sites, easy hikes and ancient native Ojibwa petroglyphs. I even met a snowshoe rabbit in his brown summer attire!
I crossed the border at Wild Horse into the US, a smaller border crossing you will not find. Because of the local fires, antelope were running next to my vehicle, with the larger males trying to outrun me – I stopped at a National Park just south of Loma, Montana on the Missouri River where the ranger and his wife convinced me to visit Yellowstone National Park and the Tetons as they were retired park rangers from there.
At Yellowstone I stayed for a few weeks to watch the bison herds, hawks and hot geysers. There is a little campground to the north just outside of the park soon past Cooke City. You are right next to the park and out of the crowds, not bad. There is another campground to the south in the Grand Teton National Park that is equal in wildlife uncrowded and quiet.
Keep an eye out for folks with cameras and a small crowd around them, usually it is a wildlife photographer that has found an interesting scene and everyone wants a look. For example, a mother bison feeding her young, an eagle eating a rabbit…, a wolf chasing it’s prey…
I encourage you to visit Canada – their parks are spectacular! Wishing you all happy trails and safe travels! I must say in all my back and forth across this beautiful continent, I have always met kind, generous and thoughtful people- If I had one piece of advice – it is go, camping, hiking, walking, traveling! Just do it, you can thank me later.
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