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Guides and Directories
You will find more
information about Glacier National Park and related subjects of interest at
the web sites listed below. If
you have other listings to suggest, or corrections to these, please send us a note
at info@gonorthwest.com.
Glacier-Bob Marshall
Wild Lands
A description of the ecosystem by the Montana Wilderness Association. Contact
the Flathead Chapter on 406-755-6304 for details on their free hikes in the area.
The
Glacier Institute
A private, non-profit outdoor education organization that promotes understanding of the
cultural and natural resources of Glacier National Park. Site offers pricing and
descriptions of their various youth camps, adult field courses, and discovery school
programs.
Glacier
National Park
This official National Park Service page provides an overview of visitor information
including entrance fees, lodging,
campgrounds and backcountry
permits. For more detailed information on the park's permissible activities, natural
resources, history and maps, go to their web site Visitor's Center. Here you can
familiarize yourself with regulations governing usage of the park's resources such as
gathering firewood, picking huckleberries, using motorized watercraft, bicycles and
commercial filming.
Glacier National Park Associates. Box
91, Kalispell, MT 59903.
The Glacier National Park Associates (GNPA)
is an all-volunteer, nonprofit organization that assists with trail work,
historic log structure preservation and other projects that the park does
not have adequate funding to complete. It
also helps the park
accomplish its goals through funding and educational activities. (Part of the
National Park Service web site.)
Glacier Natural
History Association. P.O. Box 310, West
Glacier, MT 59936. Phone: 406-888-5756. E-mail:
gnha@glacierassociation.org
A nonprofit organization that helps support park research, cultural preservation, and
educational activities through proceeds from bookstore operations in visitor centers and
ranger stations throughout Glacier National Park. They offer a guidebooks, maps, videos,
as well as publications on several popular hikes that can be accomplished in one day or
less, such as the 1.5-mile round trip to St. Mary-Virginia Falls, and the 1.4 mile hike to
Hidden Lake Overlook, where mountain goats are often seen in the evening - the summer
light fades slowly enough for the return hike. (Part of the National Park Service web
site.)
Waterton
Glacier International Peace Park
Two National Parks designated by law as the world's first International Peace Park in
1932. This official UNESCO World Heritage web site describes why the area qualified
for this status.
Waterton Glacier
International Peace Park
History of the Peace Park by Parks Canada.
Waterton Lakes National Park
Rugged mountains rise abruptly out of gentle prairie grassland in this spectacular park.
The park is home to Upper Waterton Lake, the deepest lake in the Canadian Rockies.
This official Parks Canada web site has information on fees, camping, recreation
and the natural heritage.
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Best Easy Day
Hikes: Glacier and Waterton Lakes
by Erik Molvar
May 1998, Paperback, 80 pages, (non-fiction)
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Glacier
National Park and Waterton Lakes National Park: A Complete Recreation Guide
by Vicky Spring, Tom Kirkendall
March 1994, Mountaineers Book, 1st
edition, Paperback, 255 pages, (non-fiction)
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