Glacier Journal

10/11/2023

The park's nonprofit partner recently took over maintenance and operations of three cameras at Logan Pass.

After months of displaying a grey, out-of-service icon, the webcams located at Logan Pass in Glacier National Park are once again beaming images from the Crown of the Continent to computer screens around the globe. The Glacier Conservancy, the national park’s nonprofit partner, recently took over ...

10/10/2023

Mount Gould, at 9,557 feet, is the highest point along Glacier National Park's Garden Wall. Gould offers some of the most spectacular summit views from anywhere in the park, including a bird's eye perspective on Grinnell Glacier and Upper Grinnell Lake, Many Glacier, Logan Pass, Going-to-the-Sun Road, The Highline Trail, and scads of other mountain tops, as seen on Sept. 9, 2023.

10/05/2023

As wild bighorn sheep populations experience die-offs across the West due to respiratory disease, park scientists used a decade of GPS data to discern how Glacier’s sheep might communicate disease in the event of an outbreak.

Bighorn sheep and their namesake headwear, which can weigh up to 30 pounds, serve as a prominent symbol of Glacier National Park’s high country, rivaled perhaps only by the mountain goat’s statuesque profile. As such, bighorns are among the most social wildlife species in the park and one of the...

10/04/2023

Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park Announces 20th Annual Science and History Week.

Glacier National Park and Waterton Lakes National Park, which combine as the world’s only International Peace Park, are jointly hosting a series of webinar speakers for the 20th annual Science and History Week. Since 2004, Parks Canada and the U.S. National Park Service have hosted an annual Scien...

09/09/2023

Vehicle reservations end for the season on Sept. 10 as services start to taper; North Fork area will be closed to visitors for construction through fall.

Although Glacier National Park is a year-round tourist attraction, Labor Day weekend signals the end of the busiest visitation period and a shift in park operations. The park’s vehicle reservation system, in place for all park entrances this summer, will end on Sept. 10, allowing all-day access fo...

09/06/2023

Visitors to Glacier National Park supported 5,691 jobs, $548 million in economic output for region in 2022.

Visitors to Glacier National Park support 5,691 jobs, $548 million in economic output for region

08/31/2023

Amid congressional efforts to defund Glacier National Park’s vehicle reservation system, park administrators and stakeholders defend it as an adaptive tool that has evolved based on public feedback.

For Dave Roemer to travel back in time, he has only to step out of his office at 3 p.m. and walk a block to West Glacier. From that vantage, he can glimpse the gridlock that subsumed Glacier National Park’s management team prior to his appointment as superintendent. He can watch in real time as [....

08/29/2023

A total of 34 artists are participating in this year’s fundraising event, which raises money for the museum and artists.

The Hockaday Museum of Art in Kalispell’s annual multi-day Plein Air Glacier event, in which dozens of artists from Montana and across the country go out into nature to create art inspired by the world around them, started on Aug. 26. The 34 participating artists paint outdoors in Glacier National...

08/29/2023

Park officials are in the third summer of piloting a vehicle reservation system for major park entrances and is gathering feedback to inform next summer’s strategy.

Glacier National Park administrators will host a trio of upcoming civic-engagement sessions to gather public input about its vehicle reservation system and help inform their strategy for summer 2024. Park officials will host a series of virtual and in-person public meetings in late August to provide...

08/21/2023

Fisheries managers plan to remove non-native rainbow trout from the alpine lake using a fish toxicant and replace them with genetically pure strains of westslope cutthroat and bull trout.

Glacier National Park fisheries managers will move forward with a conservation project that involves lethally removing non-native rainbow trout from Gunsight Lake and replenishing the alpine watershed with genetically pure populations of native westslope cutthroat and bull trout, as well as mountain...

08/12/2023

The agencies will continue commitments to the protection, presentation and management of cultural and natural heritage along shared transboundary places and co-stewardship with Indigenous people.

The agencies will continue commitments to the protection, presentation, and management of cultural and natural heritage along shared transboundary places and co-stewardship with Indigenous people