Glacier News

Nothing can stop these gentlemen from conquering the mountaintops. Not snow nor water. Not blindness nor heart attacks.

Ron Ukrainetz recently became the first Great Falls artist to have two paintings selected in a single year for the prestigious Paint the Parks 100, an annual international art competition also known as Art in the Parks.

The Glacier National Park Fund has set a $3.5 million fundraising goal for upgrades and restoration as the park nears its centennial.

Pirouettes and arabesques can be difficult enough to perform in a dance hall — it's even harder when ballet dancing in tackling winds atop a jagged ridge.

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Barring weather-related set-backs, Glacier National Park officials today announced that on Thursday, June 25, by mid-day, the west side of the Going-to-the-Sun Road (Sun Road) is expected to open to Logan Pass and the entire Sun Road is projected to open across Logan Pass by mid-day on Friday, June 26.

The gates to the sun will swing open Thursday, providing the season's first access to Glacier National Park's scenic Logan Pass.Motorists will be able to travel Going-to-the-Sun Road from West Glacier to the pass by midday Thursday, park officials said. The eastside approach is set to open Friday.

You've trod the trails of Glacier National Park, tracked them with tread and Vibram lug, but have you ever paused to consider how those wilderness walkways came to be?Now's your chance to find out, firsthand. The Glacier National Park Fund is looking for trail crew volunteers this summer to help maintain hiking routes throughout the park. No experience is necessary, but it doesn't hurt to be physically fit.

          Over the next several months Glacier National Park will be hosting lunchtime seminars. These programs are free to the public and will begin at 12 p.m. in the West Glacier Community Building.

Reports from the field indicate that Montana is on the verge of an incredible berry yearHeavily blossomed berry bushes have been reported in Glacier National Park as well as in the high country around Lincoln. 

    Next year Glacier National Park will celebrate its 100th anniversary. While there is no immediate threat of the glaciers not being around in the coming year many people are concerned that the glaciers won’t see another hundred years. Research by ecologist Dan Fagre suggests that they can all be gone as soon as 2020. The proof is in the numbers. In 1900 there were 150 glaciers in Glacier National Park and today there are only 25. The name of the park is in no danger of changing.

Healthy vacations may be the latest trend in travel, but in Glacier National Park, it's nothing new. For more than a century, adventurers, writers and naturalists have touted the health benefits of spending time in the mountains of Glacier.

The LA Times has posted a great photo of two mountain goat kids mid-nuzzle along the Going-to-the-Sun Road in Montana's Glacier National Park.

Rangers trying to haze a black bear from the St. Mary area on the east side of Glacier National Park accidentally killed the bear with a "cracker shell" last week.Glacier National Park staff said Thursday that the rangers were trying to keep the bear from becoming habituated to people when they attempted to haze it away from the area with the common bear management aversive conditioning tool.