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.
Plein air paintings of Glacier, Flathead now on display
The 17th annual Plein Art Glacier festival kicked off earlier this month in Glacier Park and the Flathead Valley, …
Waterton Lakes National Park bans fishing in rivers and streams; no outside nonmotorized craft, either
Waterton Lakes National Park in Canada will not allow any fishing in moving waters this season. In addition, all non-motorized watercraft from outside park bou…
Yesterdays: Wild turkeys
Twenty-eight wild turkeys were captured in Roundup and transplanted in Eureka by Montana Fish and Game.
As snow and ice melts, Glacier Park seeing new lakes
As global warming continues to shrink glaciers and ice fields in Glacier National Park, another feature is growing on the landscape — small lakes from the melt…
For Glacier’s iconic goats, snow proves solace from bugs
Research by scientists Forest P. Hayes and Joel Berger found that goats aren’t heading for the snow to cool off — they’re heading for the snow for relief from …
Zinke cuts to Glacier resos pass House, but visitation up anyway
Glacier National Park visitation was up over last year through September, but if a Republican-controlled Congress has its way, funding for the iconic park coul…
Study examines bighorn interactions, disease implications
A study of bighorn sheep herds in the St. Mary and Waterton Lakes drainages draws some fascinating insight into the animals’ movements and interactions through…
Partnership helps with Glacier whitebark pine restoration
An influx of federal dollars through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act is expected to bolster Glacier National Park officials’ whit…
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 Columbia Falls last week — but sometimes they were w…
Opinion: Hike to Sperry Chalet really a one star review? She took it to the test...
A one-star AllTrails review of the Sperry Trail to its namesake chalet by Chris Pike describes the adventure as, “Six miles of horse manure, sun-baked gravel, …
Glacier will go ahead with Gunsight Lake project, adds whitefish
Glacier National Park will go ahead with an effort to remove non-native fish from Gunsight Lake, replacing them with native westslope cutthroat trout, mountain whitefish and bull trout.
Glacier National Park reached out for employee housing, people responded
Local homeowners answered the call from Glacier National Park officials earlier this year, leasing vacation rentals and apartments to National Park Service sea…
In Glacier, a much different bear story
“Where’s Teddy?” Ben Pascal’s heart nearly stopped when his 5-year-old daughter Naomi asked him this simple question on their way back from a trip to Glacier …
Permits to park, one-way hiking on Highline Trail, just some of changes that could be coming to Glacier National Park
The plan could add more parking spaces inside the park, potentially make a portion of the popular Highline Trail a one-way hike, and ban most overnight parking…
In Glacier Park, snowfields help mountain goats breathe easy
Coronavirus notwithstanding, a study of Glacier National Park’s mountain goats continued last summer.
Glacier National Park Speaker series coming up
The annual Glacier National Park Volunteer Associates Winter Speaker Series brings three interesting and informative presenters during this challenging period in the park.