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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 week, 1 day ago

Groups say rafting, outfitting permits deserve more analysis

The Forest Service received more than 30 comments on its plan to renew special use permits for commercial rafting …

Updated 2 weeks, 1 day ago
Glacier looks to have transportation plan done by 2026

Glacier National Park hopes to have a long-term transportation/visitation plan by winter 2026, park officials said during a virtual meeting with the public and…

Updated 2 weeks, 1 day ago
Daines bill looks to address NPS maintenance

U.S. Sen. Steve Daines last week introduced a bill with bipartisan support that seeks to reauthorize a program to address billions in overdue maintenance at na…

Updated 3 weeks ago
Snow closes most Glacier Park roads for the season

The Many Glacier Road and Two Medicine Road are closed for the season and so is the Cut Bank Road at the Park boundary. The Quarter Circle Bridge Road is close…

Updated 3 weeks, 6 days ago
Glacier National Park to hold meetings on traffic and crowd management in the park

Glacier National Park will hold a series of meetings to talk about traffic and crowd management in the park and possible solutions.

Updated 4 weeks, 1 day ago
Snowy Blackfoot climb proves too much

Departing at 3 a.m. surely meant that we’d be back for dinner that day, my mind told itself as the countless black trail miles fell by the wayside en route to …

Updated 4 weeks, 1 day ago
Zinke critical of Glacier Park reservation decision

Montana Congressman Ryan Zinke isn’t too happy with the Glacier National Park announcement that it would implement a timed entry reservation system last week.

Updated 1 month ago
Pursuit buys Eddie's Cafe in Apgar Village in Glacier National Park

Pursuit announced Friday it had purchased Eddie’s Café & Mercantile and the associated Apgar Lookout Retreat in Glacier National Park from businessman Brian Ke…

Updated 1 month ago
Glacier National Park will implement timed entry system for west side of Going-to-the-Sun Road, North Fork in 2025

Glacier National Park announced Thursday it would implement a one-day timed entry reservation system for the west side of the Going-to-the-Sun Road for the sum…

Updated 1 month, 1 week ago
Longtime ranger reflects on a storied career

Dave Shea will be remembered as a shining example of what it means to be a ranger in Glacier National Park.

Updated 1 month, 2 weeks ago
October and November, the golden age of larch

Late October and early November mark the golden age of Northwest Montana’s landscape, when the western and alpine larch turn yellow and drop their needles for …

Updated 2 months ago
Opinion: Freezing at Fifty

So when you have bypass heart surgery they typically take a long length of vein from your leg to do one of the bypasses. I had a double bypass in February so t…

Updated 2 months, 3 weeks ago
Groups file suit over Gunsight Lake fish plan

Local conservation groups have filed a lawsuit in federal court which alleges the National Park Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service violated the Endange…

Updated 3 months ago
Plein air paintings of Glacier, Flathead now on display

The 17th annual Plein Art Glacier festival kicked off earlier this month in Glacier Park and the Flathead Valley, hosted by the Hockaday Museum of Art in Kalis…

Updated 3 months, 2 weeks ago
The North Face of Glacier Park's Mount Reynolds a mountaineering challenge

After a series of false starts Ayden Douglas and I started up the Going-To-The-Sun Road in the late afternoon in hopes of finding adventure and attempting a po…