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.
Glacier looks to have transportation plan done by 2026
Glacier National Park hopes to have a long-term transportation/visitation plan by winter 2026, park officials said…
As bridge gets a facelift, a look at its history
The weather outside the plastic sheet is in the single digits, but inside it's comparatively toasty as Rockwell Wenzel of Tamietti Construction of Great Falls …
Highway bill doesn't mention Sun Road
Montana Sen. Max Baucus announced last week he would co-sponsor a new federal highway funding bill. But the plan is a stark contrast to the bill Baucus supported in 2005 - it has no earmarks.
Three new bat species in Park
Glacier National Park has three previously unrecorded species of bats flying its night skies, biologists learned earlier this year.
Glacier Park's climate a paradox
Precipitation in Glacier National Park over the past few decades is up about 14 percent, but the Park is actually drier in many respects, with streams hitting …
Scientist hopes to forecast killer avalanches
In the winter of 2009, a massive avalanche started near the crest of the Garden Wall in Glacier National Park and ran 4,000 vertical feet down the slope, cross…
Local cavers to talk about their work in Park
The Crown of the Continent Research Learning Center at Glacier National Park will host a free brown-bag lecture at the Community Building in the Park Headquarters area on Tuesday, Nov. 8, from noon to 1 p.m. The Bi…
Study lends insight into secret world of harlequins
Go up Avalanche Creek, take a left way upstream on a trail-less and brush-choked tributary, then look up a 25-foot cliff perched above a raging whitewater.
Park lecture
Park talk
Park's new science chief gets his feet wet
Phil Wilson hasn't been afraid to get his feet wet at his new post in Glacier National Park. Last week, he hiked up Nyack Creek to the falls and then waded dow…
Glacier welcomes deputy superintendent
Glacier National Park has announced Kym Hall as deputy superintendent. She joined the Park in July and replaces Stephanie DuBois, who was named superintendent …
Major alpine paving completed on Sun Road
A six-mile alpine section of the Going-to-the Sun Road in Glacier National Park neared completion this fall. Crews finished final paving of the road from Big Bend on the west side to Siyeh Bend on the east side, Pa…
B.C. bill would ban North Fork mining
A bill introduced in the British Columbia legislature last week would ban mining and oil and gas exploration in the Canadian Flathead, which is the North Fork of the Flathead River north of the border.
Mint to issue Glacier Park silver coins
If you liked the Glacier National Park quarter, you'll really like this coin - provided you have the nearly $300 it could cost to get one.
Park puts down troublesome black bear
Glacier National Park rangers and Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks biologists captured and killed a black bear in the Polebridge area Oct. 5 after numerous incidents in which it broke into vehicles, raided trash st…
GPI's parent company acquires Alaskan holdings
Glacier Park Inc.'s parent company, Viad Corp., has expanded its holdings near a national park for the third time this year.