Officials deem changes to Glacier National Park's reservation system this year a success

Dropping the reservation requirement to enter Glacier National Park from the St. Mary entrance this summer helped disperse traffic throughout the park, officials say.  

2024 was the fourth year of Glacier National Park's pilot vehicle reservation system. In 2023, the entrances on the Going-to-the-Sun Road as well as the North Fork, Many Glacier and Two Medicine required ticketed entry in addition to a normal park pass.  

Park officials opted this year to move the ticket checkpoint farther past the west entrance, giving visitors access to Apgar without a reservation. They also decided to drop reservation requirements for Two Medicine and the St. Mary entrance of the Going-to-the-Sun Road in hopes that it would encourage visitors to pick different routes into the park.