Info About Glacier National Park

Glacier National Park has kept much of its original, natural beauty and pristine appeal since its inception as a national park on May 11, 1910.

Glacier National Park encompasses some one million acres of beautiful forests, lakes, meadows, and mountains.  Glacier is part of a largely preserved ecosystem collectively known as the "Crown of the Continent Ecosystem", all of which is a primarily untouched wilderness of pristine quality.

Glacier receives about 2 million visitors each year, most of whom come in the summer months between mid-June to mid-September when the weather is the mildest. Keep in mind however that winter is also a wonderful time to visit Glacier.  During the winter months, Glacier becomes a virtual winter wonderland with snow-covered trees (what locals term "snow ghosts") and flawless snow-covered trails and hiking paths that beckon snowshoers and cross country skiers.

Hiking is a popular activity in the park. Providing nearly 700 miles of trails that lead deep into some of North America’s most spectacular and pristine wilderness, Glacier Park is truly a hiker’s paradise.

Flaura and Fauna

Even the endangered grizzly bear and Canadian lynx are still found in Glacier Park at plentiful levels.

The black bear, a less aggressive cousin of the grizzly bear is much more common in the park than the grizzly and a recent study using DNA to identify hair samples indicated that there are about six times as many black bears as there are grizzlies. Other large mammals such as the mountain goat (the official park symbol), bighorn sheep, moose, elk, mule deer, white-tailed deer, coyote, and the rarely seen mountain lion, are either plentiful or common. And unlike Yellowstone National Park, which commenced a wolf reintroduction program in the 1990s, wolves have existed almost continuously in Glacier National Park.