Glacier Park
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Climbing the Baring Cliffs
Glacier Park National is home to over 250 summits, many of which are easily ascended by moderate scrambles. For ea…
Glacier eyes 'one car in, one car out' rules to ease crowding
If the crowds of last summer continue, Glacier National Park is considering implementing a “one car in, one car out,” plan for some of its dead-end roads, Supe…
Waterton-Glacier receives dark sky designation
Look up in the skies on a dark, clear night in Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park and you’ll likely see more stars than you ever have in your entire lif…
Plows chugging along on Sun Road
Glacier Park plow crews have made it 2.5 miles past the Loop on the west side and are at the Wild Goose Island Overlook on the east side of the Going-to-the-Su…
Park plows making good progress
Glacier Park plow crews made good progress last week. Crews on the Going-to-the-Sun Road were beyond Packer’s Roost on the west side and were heading to the Lo…
Glacier Youth Corps taking applications
Students ages 15-17 are encouraged to apply for the Glacier Youth Corps program this summer. The program provides a hands-on conservation opportunity in Glacier National Park. Participants will live and learn in th…
Glacier Park lake trout netting shows promise
Scientists working in Glacier National Park and at the University of Montana may have found a solution to the decades-long lake trout invasion. Over the past …
Waterton Park announces ban on motorized, trailered boats
Waterton Lakes National Park in Canada has announced it too will institute a boat ban after aquatic invasive mussels were found in the Tiber Reservoir in Monta…
A little bird watches as Lake McDonald Lodge gets a makeover
On a frigid afternoon last week as a light snow fell, Cornelius Jirod was busy carefully cutting out an old log support from the famed Lake McDonald Lodge in G…
Glacier Park Alt Facebook page draws 5,000 likes in about a week
After the election of President Donald Trump, a host of “alt” Facebook pages featuring prominent national parks have sprung up, including an Alt Glacier Nation…
Annual park pass goes up $5, senior pass to rise $70
The 2017 Glacier National Park annual entrance pass will see a $5 price increase from $45 last year to $50 this year.
With correction, Glacier visitation was just under 3 million
Glacier National Park has revised its visitation estimate for 2016 to nearly 3 million visitors, after it was discovered that traffic counters didn’t always wo…
100 years, 100 miles, a celebration of the Park Service Centennial, Glacier style
By CHRIS PETERSON
Snyder Ridge
The Snyder Ridge Trail in Glacier National Park won’t go down as a favorite, which isn’t to say it’s unpleasant. It is very pleasant. It’s a nice walk in the t…
Sun Road work underway
Repair work recently began on three segments of the rock guard wall along Going-to-the-Sun Road in Glacier National Park between Triple Arches and Oberlin Bend.
Learning about climate change, through dance
How best to educate people on climate change is a pervasive question. For the dancers of CoMotion Dance Project, their performance, “Changing Balance, Balancin…