Glacier National Park Travel Guide and Directory. Northwest Montana Travel Regions Glacier National Park is a stunningly beautiful ice-carved terrain of serrated ridges, jutting peaks, dramatic hanging valleys, 50 glaciers, more than 200 lakes, waterfalls and thick forests covering some 1.2-million acres. Deer are among the most commonly spotted wildlife but elk, moose, mountain goats, bighorn sheep, wolves, grizzly and black bears roam its wild vastness and are often seen by visitors.
Just west of the town St. Mary (found on the east side of Glacier National Park) is the picturesque scene of St. Mary Lake along the Going-to-the-Sun-Road. GPS: N 48, 41.4994; W 113, 31.8905. Goat Lick overlook, for example, is a natural salt lick on cliffs overlooking the southern border of the park. Wild flowers, too, are abundant and put on a lengthy show of color as they follow spring up the mountains all summer long.
The park is unique among US parks in its relationship with the Waterton Lakes National Park in Alberta, Canada. Go Northwest! Glacier National Park, Montana: Lodging, Hiking and Backpacking Equipment. Glacier National Park Website Visitor Center. Glacier National Park. Mother Nature's best work Glacier National Park is the center of one of the largest and most intact ecosystems in North America. The views from the cliff-strewn Going-to-the-Sun Road over the Continental Divide make a visit worthwhile, but the experience from inside a car or one of the Park’s famous Red Jammer buses is just the tip of the icefield.
Glacier’s one million acres of turquoise alpine lakes, mountain goats and grizzly bears, craggy peaks, and of course, glaciers are almost guaranteed to leave visitors speechless. Going to the Sun Road The 52 miles of this two-lane road that stretch over sheer cliffs and around solid rock would be an impressive engineering feat today, and were even more so when the road was built in the 1930s. Learn More Getting Around the Park The Going-to-the-Sun Road is the only road that ventures deep into Glacier, but areas near the Park boundary such as Many Glacier, East Glacier, the North Fork, and Two Medicine are also reachable by car. Exploring Glacier. Glacier National Park. St. Mary Lake, Glacier National Park. Glacier National Park [1] is a United States National Park and a UNESCO World Heritage site that is on the northern border of Montana in the United States of America.
Understand[edit] History[edit] Glacier National Park borders Waterton Lakes National Park in Canada — the two parks are known as the Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park, and were designated as the world's first International Peace Park in 1932. Landscape[edit] Mountain Goats Mountain Goats on the trail near Gunsight Pass Glacier National Park is a stunning display of the geological processes that changed North America over the last billion years. Flora and fauna[edit] The park offers many opportunities to see wildlife, and its ecosystems are almost unchanged from what they were at the time of Lewis and Clark. Coniferous forest is the predominant ecosystem, although the forest is visibly different on the east and west sides of the Divide.
Climate[edit] Long Cloud Looming Over Snowy Field. Glacier National Park. Glacier Park Inc. in Glacier National Park. Glacier National Park.