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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 3 weeks, 5 days ago

Public has plenty of opinions on Glacier reservation system

There were plenty of ideas on Glacier National Park’s reservation system expressed during an open house in Colum...

Updated 3 years, 1 month ago
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...

Updated 3 years, 2 months ago
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 o...

Updated 3 years, 3 months ago
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 Wheel...

Updated 3 years, 3 months ago
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.

Updated 3 years, 4 months ago
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...

Updated 3 years, 4 months ago
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.

Updated 3 years, 5 months ago
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.

Updated 3 years, 5 months ago
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.

Updated 3 years, 6 months ago
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.

Updated 3 years, 6 months ago
Ian Tippet, longtime Glacier Park figure, dies

Ian Tippet, the man who brought musicals and Hootenannies to Glacier National Park for decades, died of natural causes Monday, March 9 in Arizona. He was 88.

Updated 3 years, 6 months ago
Trump now supports conservation funding, Senate responds

A recent tweet by President Donald Trump now has Montana’s Senate delegation back on track to pass permanent funding for the Land, Water and Conservation Fun...

Updated 3 years, 6 months ago
Trump now supports conservation funding, Senate responds

A recent tweet by President Donald Trump now has Montana’s Senate delegation back on track to pass permanent funding for the Land, Water and Conservation Fun...

Updated 3 years, 7 months ago
Plan would expand cell phone service in Glacier National Park

Glacier National Park has released a scoping plan that would increase cell phone coverage in the park.

Updated 3 years, 7 months ago
Glacier's 'sister' park in Mongolia has many similarities to Montana

Glacier National Park has a sister, a half world away.

Updated 3 years, 7 months ago
Study catches Glacier’s elusive lynx — on camera

Alissa Anderson, a Washington State University graduate student, glimpsed over a hundred intimate moments of one of the most elusive cats in the Lower 48 dur...