Yellowstone, Glacier national parks on track for record years
Suzanne Buttenob dives into Upper Grinnell Lake in Glacier National Park on Thursday, Aug. 1. Buttenob and her friend Braxton Smith drove through the night from Salt Lake City to hike the Grinnell Glacier trail. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Casey Kreider
Fresh off of a year that saw Yellowstone and Glacier national parks notch their second-highest visitation years ever, the two anchors for Montana’s tourism sector are on an even hotter pace this summer, which could see new all-time records.
Officials with Yellowstone National Park announced this week that the park hosted 928,250 visitors in June, up 14,000 from the previous year.
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