Glacier National Park News

You can shrink or enlarge yourself, watch marbles roll uphill and brooms stand on end, be soaked in a river's rapids, get lost in a maze, play 18 holes of golf, suck down a huckleberry milkshake.

The trend lines look like graph-paper mountain ranges, high peaks crashing against deep valleys, all charting a rugged and difficult future.

It's hard, in a place packed with grizzly bears, to get very excited about a pika.

The tourists huddled in a shivering pack amid what should have been the heat of July, crowding around Laura Kloeck while she explained a bit about climate change.

The National Park Service says visits to Glacier National Park were down 8.6% for the first seven months of 2008.

These mountains have always been old, weighed heavy with age and rooted in deep time, the kind of place where you can heft a handful of early, early earth and wonder at the world before.

The National Park Service says visits to Glacier National Park were down 8.6% for the first seven months of 2008.

John Gray seems pretty content with his newer, quieter -- albeit still busy -- way of life.

Hike up two mountain peaks with eye-popping vistas on this challenging 7.4-mile off-trail route on the park's lesser-traveled east side.

Adventures by Disney is adding eight new destinations to its list of family tours, including Alaska, the Galapagos Islands and South Africa.

Wayne, NE Man Celebrates 80th Birthday on 08/08/08 While Friday's date is a numerical oddity, 08/08/08, a Wayne, Nebraska man is adding a fourth eight to the date by celebrating his 80th birthday.

The last time Bryan Faehner talked to Mary was a couple weeks ago, "and I was giving her advice on a hike to Iceberg Lake, in Glacier National Park." Whether Mary might pack a gun on that hike could depend upon ...

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It's not very often that things get dull around here in the summer. Something is always happening, but even so, it's still fun to troll the Internet first thing in the morning and find out what's going on in ...

As the dust settles on a federal court's reinstatement of Endangered Species protections for gray wolves, one thing is clear: We need to find a new path to achieve balanced, science-based wolf management by the ...

Passengers on Amtrak's Chicago-Seattle train were moved to buses for part of their Montana travel on Monday after a BNSF Railway freight train derailed, blocking tracks and spilling corn destined for export ...

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Here in Western Montana we suffer from an embarrassment of riches. Flathead Lake.

Sharon Midkiff Randolph has a want for knowledge. That drive has taken her on a 17-year quest to learn about the history of Glacier National Park and the area.

The proposal of several U.S. senators to allow transporting of firearms in national parks is political pandering to the National Rifle Association.