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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, 5 days 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 byp…

Updated 1 month 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 1 month, 1 week 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 1 month, 3 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…

Updated 2 months, 1 week ago
Otokomi: This east-side hike has handfuls of rewards

Tucked away behind the Rising Sun Motel in St. Mary lies the often looked over Otokomi Lake and its rugged country of the Rose Creek drainage. From the Rose C…

Updated 2 months, 1 week ago
Glacier will hold Hawk Watch training sessions

Glacier National Park will host volunteer training for its annual Hawk Watch program on August 27 and September 23.

Updated 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Daunting Task: The north face of Wilbur provides a challenge for veteran climbers

Last month, Adam Clark and I made, from what we know, the fourth ascent of the North Face of Mount Wilbur via the main weakness to the west of the true summit.…

Updated 2 months, 3 weeks ago
History: A hot day played a big role in Glacier National Park's creation

It’s easy to take the grandeur of Glacier National Park for granted nowadays, but 114 years ago, a hot day and a change in the way the U.S. House of Representa…

Updated 2 months, 4 weeks ago
Grinnell’s Glacier: A look at the man behind the Glacier National Park landmarks

George Bird Grinnell – “The Father of Glacier National Park” – was born Sept. 30, 1849, in Brooklyn, New York to George Blake Grinnell and Helen A. Lansing

Updated 2 months, 4 weeks ago
For bat researchers, tender is the night

When the pulchritudinous song of the Swainson’s thrush stops, that’s when Lisa Bate knows it’s time to raise the nets.

Updated 3 months, 1 week ago
Groups threaten lawsuit over Gunsight Lake bull trout plan

Two environmental groups have filed a 60-day notice of intent to sue the Park Service over plans to introduce bull trout into Gunsight Lake in Glacier National…

Updated 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Pitamakan: On this day, a nice place for a nap

The nice thing about Glacier National Park’s new Wilderness Backcountry Permit system is it lets you see what’s available in advance, so even if you didn’t boo…

Updated 4 months ago
Howe Lake and beyond ... Biological diversity abounds on this relatively short journey

Sometimes you do a hike in Glacier National Park for the fun of it and other times they become an exploratory mission. Sunday’s hike on the Howe Lake Fire Trai…

Updated 4 months ago
Thinking of climbing Chief Mountain? Think again as Blackfeet enforcing closure

Tribal leaders are again enforcing a decades-old closure of Chief Mountain after recent tourist activity disturbed cultural and spiritual practices there.

Updated 4 months, 1 week ago
Belly Up: When things go south in a beautiful place, you just roll with it

It’s amazing how things can go south in a hurry. (By the way, why do things ‘Go south?” couldn’t they just as easily go north or west or east? I suppose going …