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Glacier National Park is an American national park located in northwestern Montana, on the Canada–United States border, adjacent to Waterton Lakes National Park in Canada—the two parks are known as the Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park. The park encompasses more than 1 million acres (4,100 km 2) and includes parts of two mountain ...
There are at least 150 named mountain peaks over 8,000 feet (2,400 m) in Glacier in three mountain ranges --the Clark Range, Lewis Range, Livingston Range. Mount Cleveland at 10,479 feet (3,194 m) [1] is the highest peak in the park. [2] Many peaks in Glacier National Park have both English and anglicized versions of native American names.
Scramble. Mount Grinnell is a peak located in the heart of Glacier National Park in the U.S. state of Montana. Lying just east of the Continental Divide in the Many Glacier region of the park, the peak is flanked to the northwest by Swiftcurrent Glacier and to the south by Grinnell Glacier. [3] Mount Grinnell is named after George Bird Grinnell ...
Glacier Park Boat Company offers tours of numerous lakes in Glacier National Park. The tour boat Little Chief has carried visitors since 1926 and now docks at St. Mary Lake.
Saint Mary Lake is the second-largest lake in Glacier National Park, in the U.S. state of Montana. [2] Located on the east side of the park, Going-to-the-Sun Road parallels the lake along its north shore. At an elevation of 4,484 feet (1,367 m), Saint Mary Lake's waters are colder and lie almost 1,500 feet (460 m) higher in elevation than Lake ...
Daily Inter Lake, Kalispell, Mont. July 28, 2024 at 11:59 PM. Jul. 28—Beginning at the Two Medicine Campground, the 18-mile Pitamakan-Dawson Loop hike first skirts around the flank of Rising ...
Marias Pass ( elevation 5,213 feet (1,589 m)) is a mountain pass in the Rocky Mountains in the western US state of Montana. Lying on the southern border of Glacier National Park, it is traversed by US Highway 2 and by the BNSF Hi-Line Subdivision . The pass is the lowest crossing of the Continental Divide between Canada and central New Mexico ...
Going-to-the-Sun Road is a scenic mountain road in the Rocky Mountains of the western United States, in Glacier National Park in Montana.The Sun Road, as it is sometimes abbreviated in National Park Service documents, is the only road that traverses the park, crossing the Continental Divide through Logan Pass at an elevation of 6,646 feet (2,026 m), which is the highest point on the road. [3]