Glacier Park
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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…
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The hike to Red Eagle Lake in Glacier National Park is a pleasant one. It’s flat by Glacier Park standards, with minimal elevation gain and loss and it goes in…
20 years later, man to return to scene of rafting wreck
On Sunday, June 15, 1997, a Father’s Day whitewater raft trip took a turn for the nightmarish.
Lobbying group claims Zinke leaning toward privatizing Park camps
A Whitefish-based lobbying group is claiming that Sec. of Interior Ryan Zinke wants to privatize campgrounds in national parks.
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The great gray owl glided across the meadow on silent wings and landed on a snag right in front of me. The largest owl in Glacier National Park, great grays st…
A banner year for beargrass in Glacier
If the low elevations are any indication, it looks like it will be a banner year for beargrass in Glacier National Park and surrounding mountain ranges this su…
Better imaging helps scientists map glaciers
New technology can give scientists a closer look at glaciers – but there aren’t many left.
Many Glacier Park services open for Memorial Day weekend
Many services and facilities in Glacier National Park will be open for Memorial Day weekend.
Park's bear monitoring and capturing begins
Visitors are urged to be alert and bear aware in Glacier National Park as bear monitoring gets underway with bait stations and traps. Trapping efforts will con…
Glacier Park welcomes a cast of artists this summer, fall
Artists Matthew Dickerson, Laura Burlis, Meg Leonard, Pamela Haunschild, and Linda Beach have been selected for the 2017 Artist-in-Residence program at Glacier…
She heads up the volunteers that help Glacier Park
A small, hardworking core of volunteers works hard to spruce up Glacier Park, and they’re led by a special woman. Cheryl Klein is the president of Glacier Nati…
Trout Unlimited to honor Glacier Park fisheries biologist
Flathead Valley Trout Unlimited will formally honor Glacier National Park’s Chris Downs on May 20 at the chapter’s annual banquet in Whitefish. Downs, a fisher…
Glacier Park hiker-biker shuttle opens this weekend
Beginning May 13, the hiker-biker shuttle will be available every weekend on the west side of Glacier National Park. The shuttle will operate every 30 minutes …
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…