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Glacier National Park

Your gateway to Glacier National Park—featuring in-depth coverage, community stories, and photo galleries that bring the landscape to life.

Updated 6 days, 12 hours ago

Sharp cold front to drop snow on Glacier Park

A winter weather advisory was issued for Glacier National Park beginning Wednesday night as a potent front out of …

Updated 3 months ago
Trump nominates a hospitality executive to lead the National Park Service

President Donald Trump has nominated for director of the National Park Service an executive from a hospitality company that holds extensive contracts with the …

Updated 3 months, 1 week ago
Glacier officials remain mum on plan to end ticketed entry

Five years after Glacier National Park first introduced a ticketed-entry system to handle ever-increasing summer crowds, the park plans on eliminating the at-t…

Updated 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Feds order interpretive signs in Glacier, Little Bighorn, changed or removed

Members of the Trump administration have ordered National Park Service staff change or remove signs and exhibits at two NPS locations in Montana due to their f…

Updated 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Montana’s tourists are getting older, richer and rarer

While Montana saw fewer tourists in 2025, they came with more gray hair — and more dollars for Montana businesses.

Updated 4 months ago
For Foster, it’s been a rewarding career at Glacier National Park

The complete remodeling of the Many Glacier Hotel. The rebuilding of the Going-to-the-Sun Road; numerous water and infrastructure projects and two notable toil…

Updated 4 months, 1 week ago
Montana’s snowpack above normal after December storms

The relentless atmospheric river that drenched Montana in December helped ease drought conditions while also delivering robust snowfall to the state’s highest …

Updated 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Outdoors: Lonesome Lines

Our winter Outdoors special publication features stories on winter alpine touring, an ice fishing derby, and a local nordic club training for a biathlon.

Updated 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Fleeting encounters: The common redpoll

My grouse hunt had been interrupted by a favorite winter bird: The common redpoll.

Updated 4 months, 3 weeks ago
A snowy hike to Glacier National Park's Mount Brown lookout

Last year around mid-November, we were stuck in the same scenario: almost no snow.

Updated 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Skiing the desolate slopes of Glacier National Park's Otokomi Lake

The first light of dawn danced across the broad peaks of the St. Mary’s Valley as a cloudless sky was pierced by an early morning chill – a chill that cut stra…

Updated 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Challenges ahead as Glacier unveils new vehicle management system, foreign-visitor fees and construction projects in 2026

The park received 2.95 million visitors between January and September of this year.

Updated 5 months ago
Though diminished, glaciers may persist through end of century

Northwest Montana’s glaciers are still melting, albeit slower than scientists previously predicted.

Updated 5 months, 1 week ago
Headlines: Glacier Park proposed changes, building goals for Habitat for Humanity, and CWD concerns

Glacier Park hits brakes on vehicle reservation system, Habitat for Humanity needs more land in the Flathead, donation goes toward new fishing pier in Columbia…

Updated 5 months, 1 week ago
National park gift shops ordered to purge merchandise promoting DEI

The Trump administration is expanding its crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion by ordering national parks to purge their gift shops of items it deems o…

Updated 5 months, 1 week ago
Group sues after new national park pass allegedly drops image of Glacier for Trump's likeness

WASHINGTON — A public lands advocacy group sued the Trump administration in federal court Wednesday over the inclusion of President Donald Trump’s face on the …