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Glacier Park

What's happening in Glacier Park today? For information and details regarding Glacier Park and featured stories about the area, see our articles below.

Updated 1 day, 17 hours ago

Glacier withdraws plan to put bull trout in Gunsight Lake

Glacier National Park and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have withdrawn a plan to stock native bull trout into…

Updated 1 week, 4 days ago
West Glacier crafts cool online story map

The community of West Glacier has a story to tell — one of deep history, cultural significance, and ongoing community resilience. A newly launched Story Map, “A Town on the Edge: The past, present, and future of We…

Updated 3 weeks, 1 day ago
Battling the ‘Breeze’ on Summit Mountain

Winds whipped overhead as frozen feet slipped into ski boots in the cold morning hours at Marias Pass. Adam Clark, Adam Cazell and I eyed our goal of the north…

Updated 3 weeks, 6 days ago
Late riser? Glacier National Park's Sun Road advanced reservations easier to get than one might think

Advanced reservations to enter the west side of the Going-to-the-Sun Road don’t appear to be going as fast as they have in previous years now that Glacier Nati…

Updated 4 weeks, 1 day ago
Skiing Stanton worth the work on a sunny day

Winding along the Going-to-the-Sun Road, Ella Kuzyk and I had our sights set on a snowy Mount Stanton, shrouded in a morning fog at the head of the lake. Donni…

Updated 4 weeks, 1 day ago
Opinion: Snowbirds return

The juncos are back in Glacier National Park. The affable birds nest in shallow burrows in the ground and are some of the first birds to return to Glacier each…

Updated 4 weeks, 1 day ago
Glacier updates its fire management plan

A new fire management plan for Glacier National Park will incorporate prescribed burning and other forest treatments into the park’s ongoing efforts to prevent…

Updated 1 month ago
Appeal filed in Glacier Park home case

The Flathead Conservation District and Friends of Montana Rivers and Streams have filed an appeal to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in the case of a home b…

Updated 1 month ago
Zinke says Going-to-the-Sun Road plowing should be on schedule

Montana Republican Congressman Ryan Zinke announced Friday that Forest Service and Park Service probationary workers that were fired earlier this year under cu…

Updated 1 month ago
Glacier will close Two Medicine to vehicles this fall for utility work

Some of the Glacier National Park’s busiest hubs are set to be temporarily closed in coming years to overhaul the park’s outdated water and wastewater systems.

Updated 1 month, 2 weeks ago
In Glacier National Park, a rally for public lands and the people that work there

Kellie Ileto stood at the edge of the Going-to-the-Sun Road Saturday as it enters West Glacier holding one sign that said, “Only you can stand up for National …

Updated 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Penrose, in winter: It’s not the peak, it’s the journey that matters

When I entered the world of mountaineering years ago, reaching the summit of a mountain meant everything. A successful day of climbing was defined by standing …

Updated 1 month, 3 weeks ago
After years of discussion, BNSF has a griz plan

The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service has approved a BNSF Railway plan that will provide funding for grizzly bear conservation in northwest Montana in return for a …

Updated 2 months, 1 week ago
Advanced reservations for Glacier National Park's west side of the Going-to-the-Sun Road, North Fork become available Feb. 13

Glacier National Park has released more details on a timed entry reservation system for the west entrance of the Going-to-the-Sun Road and the North Fork regio…

Updated 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Hiring freeze, 'resignation' offer could impact thousands of Park Service workers, including Glacier National Park

A federal hiring freeze and a letter that urges employees to consider resignation is already having implications in Glacier National Park and throughout the Pa…