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.
Yesterdays: Wild turkeys
Twenty-eight wild turkeys were captured in Roundup and transplanted in Eureka by Montana Fish and Game.
Glacier announces fee free days for 2021
Glacier National Park will waive its entrance fee on six days in 2021.
A Dark Sky Defender
Iree Wheeler joined the ranks of this planet’s “Dark Sky Defenders” after receiving the distinction from the International Dark-Sky Association earlier this fa…
In Remembrance: Park Service salutes former employee who died of Covid-19
“He had a very lovely and contagious smile,” said Baker “If he smiled at you — which he always did — you couldn’t help but smile back. I mean, he just had a gr…
Teen ID’d in Glacier Park scuba accident death in Lake McDonald
The victim of a diving accident in Glacier National Park last week was identified as 18-year-old Linnea Rose Mills of Missoula.
In Glacier, teen dies in scuba accident, another man hospitalized
An 18-year-old Missoula woman died in a scuba diving accident in Glacier National Park’s Lake McDonald Sunday.
Wandering griz clears popular Glacier National Park Trail
A young single grizzly bear, who may have received a food reward from a hiker’s backpack, caused the closure of Avalanche Lake trail Thursday.
Avalanche Allure: Visitors willing to park a mile away to visit lake
Glacier National Park visitors are parking beyond Redrocks pullout — more than a mile away — on Going-to-the-Sun Road in order to access the trailhead of one o…
Howe Ridge fire creates forest transformation
Two years ago the Howe Ridge Fire burned about 14,500 acres in Glacier National Park. The fire was infamous for its damage to Kelly’s Camp along the shores of …
Conservancy looks to restore historic park structure
Glacier National Park Conservancy recently applied for a state grant totaling nearly $500,000 that would go toward the restoration of the historic Lulu Wheeler…
Researcher looking at climate change impacts on Middle Fork
While the climate as a whole is changing, Claire Rawlings Gilder wants to examine the ways just one part of our world is changing with it — our rivers.
First Glacier Park cabin installed, Camas entrance up next
Slowly, but surely, a new cabin for Glacier National Park rolled out of the shop at the Columbia Falls High School last week. The cabin will be used to house e…
Park plows working at Haystack Creek
Glacier National Park plow crews were expected to make it into the Haystack Creek area of the Going-to-the-Sun Road this week.
With snow cleared, Many Glacier Road work is now underway
Crews from Missouri River Contractors of Helena have begun work on the Many Glacier Road in Glacier National Park.
In passing: Iversen, former superintendent of Glacier, banned snowmobiles in the Park
Former Glacier National Park superintendent Phillip R. Iversen died April 7 at his home in Kalispell with his family by his side.
Social distancing, Montana style
Last week I figured if I wrote another story on coronavirus I was going to be forced to tuck a napkin under my chin and eat my arm off.