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.
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 boun…
Huckleberry: No switchbacks, great views
The Huckleberry Lookout in Glacier National Park is the only lookout trail in Glacier without a single switchback.
For Rotary, sadness at cancellation of annual event
It’s a sad week for International Peace Park Rotarians.
Glacier's grand old hotel celebrated
In the late 1990s, the fate of the Many Glacier Hotel hung in the balance.
Glacier reopens some backcountry campgrounds
Glacier National Park is now allowing some backcountry permits in the Park. On Thursday, it began issuing permits for campgrounds south of the Going-to-the-Sun…
Glacier National Park visitation topped 900,000 in August
Fires and smoke aside, Glacier National Park saw 908,479 visitors in August, a 21.4 percent increase over last year.
Heartbroken: The Sprague Fire, a week in review
The Sperry Chalet was gutted by fire. Lake McDonald Lodge was evacuated. The west side of the Sun Road was closed to Logan Pass.
New Glacier Park reader book gathers stories of the storied land
Whether your passion is animals, adventure, or history, there’s something for everyone in a new anthology of writings about Glacier National Park. “The Glacier…
Glacier looks to hike annual pass to $60
Glacier National Park is soliciting public comment for a proposal to change the price of the Glacier National Park Annual Pass from $50 to $60. No other entran…
Grizzly bear family tree research continues in Glacier
When it comes to population trends, one male grizzly can have a big impact.
Topography, snowfall affect retreat of cirque glaciers
University of Montana doctoral candidate Caitlyn Florentine is taking a new look at Sperry Glacier’s retreat, and this particular glacier’s near future isn’t q…
One way to preserve bull trout in Glacier is to move them
Chris Downs, fisheries biologist and leader of native trout protection efforts, recently spoke at Science and History Day to update the public on the Park’s la…
If we give them space, future looks good for grizzlies
While tragic, Glacier Park’s Night of the Grizzlies did much to change grizzly bear and human backcountry use.
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In the early morning hours of Aug. 13, 1967, a tragedy struck Glacier National Park. A tragedy that would forever change the way the Park managed its backcount…
Glacier's historic fire hose tower still in use
In the early years of Glacier National Park, the fire management strategy was to look at the sky and hope for rain.
Montana warming faster than other parts of the world
In Montana, average temperatures have risen 1.8 times faster than the global average, and Glacier National Park’s ice bodies are taking the heat.