Days on this trip start in Whitefish, at a motorhome parked under lodgepole on the edge of town with a bed for everyone and a week of groceries in the fridge. Each morning the drive heads out US-2 to the park's west entrance, and the whole west side of Glacier works as a day out from town. Nights come back to the hookups, and the next day goes in again.
The day's first look is the foot of Lake McDonald, on the shore at Apgar, with the water flat up the valley and the peaks stacked behind the far side one ridge after another. The morning goes on the water there, and the afternoon along the lake road.
Going-to-the-Sun Road keeps the rig on the lake shore. The Park Service bars vehicles and combinations over 21 feet long or 8 feet wide between Avalanche Creek and Rising Sun, and that covers any motorhome a family rents for a week. The rig drives the lake shore as far as Avalanche Creek and turns back there, which still leaves the whole length of Lake McDonald for the day.
Logan Pass stays on the itinerary anyway. The ticketed shuttle from the Apgar Visitor Center climbs the road the rig can't, running early July into early September as of 2026, and at the top the mountain goats wander the pavement as if the pass were theirs. It's day use only, so the night still ends back in the rig.
Whitefish RV Park, on US-93 south of town, is the close-in base and an easy first night, with 51 full-hookup sites and 14 pull-throughs. If it's booked, the Whitefish KOA is the other name in town. On the park side of the drive, West Glacier RV Park has full-service pull-throughs from early May to early October as of 2026, a good overflow when you're arriving late.
Whitefish and its lake, on the days off the park road
Somewhere mid-week a day off the park road pays for itself. The rig stays on its hookups with the air running through the warm part of the afternoon, and the day belongs to Whitefish itself, downtown in the morning and Whitefish Lake after lunch. Whitefish RV Park wires its sites for 50 and 30 amp and keeps a dump station on the grounds, so a full week there goes by without a trip to empty the tanks.
Whitefish Lake State Park sits on the water with 25 tent and RV sites booked through ReserveAmerica. Its lakeside nights, Tally Lake and the North Fork road to Bowman Lake, which is no road for a motorhome, suit two people traveling light, and they're covered along with the resort and the Whitefish Trail for a smaller rig out of Whitefish. For a bigger lake with hookup resorts on the shore, Flathead is a week of its own on the Kalispell RV page.
Apgar and Fish Creek, a night or two inside the gate
Moving into the park for a night or two turns Lake McDonald from the day's destination into the view out the door, and a full-size motorhome can make that move. Apgar puts you at the foot of the lake, the same place the Logan Pass shuttle leaves from, and Fish Creek is the park's other west-side campground that takes a real rig.
Book the site before the motorhome, since its length cap sets the size you can rent. Apgar's 25 sites take rigs up to 40 feet and Fish Creek's 18 take up to 35, both reserved on Recreation.gov. These are dry nights, so fill the fresh tank and empty the others in Whitefish on the way in, then use the campground dump stations on the way out.
The east side's campgrounds and their caps are on the Glacier National Park RV page.