After spending 12 hours on the road Wednesday we bedded down at the KOA in Missoula. Western Montana is beautiful country, so it seemed like a no-brainer that the KOA there would be comfortably situated in the most scenic area of Missoula (we stayed at a KOA near Glacier National Park two years ago and it was incredible). And it most likely was… 20 years ago. It was a little disheartening to unwind in an uncharacteristically crowded campsite after being cramped in a vehicle for so long. Not only was each Kabin nearly on top of the next, but the entire campground was sandwiched between a trailer court, a condo development and a shopping mall. It’s like the community had absorbed the campground. For us Midwestern flatlanders who feel crowded with a population density of two people per square mile we couldn’t leave fast enough.