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If you want to actually see the
glaciers up closed, you need to plan your Glacier visit
between June and September.
Glacier National Park is famous for Going to the Sun Road.
The road that will take you to the sun. Well not quite, but
close. Glacier’s Going to the Sun road is only open during
the summer. The park maintenance crews head out and spend
months plowing 80 foot drifts on steep mountainsides.
The road is really quite dangerous. For much of the road
length there are no guardrails, although there are small
rocks placed on the edge of the cliff to indicate where the
edge of the roadway is. Glacier National Park has been
lobbying to have significant improvements for Going to the
Sun Road.
Glacier Wildlife
On a nice day in Glacier National Park you may see the
following wildlife; grizzly and black bears, moose, elk,
wolves, mule and whitetail deer, mountain goats, mountain
lions, big horn rams and much more.
Glacier is also known for pristine waterfalls, alpine lakes
and freezing cold creeks, streams and rivers.
Glacier & Yellowstone Parks
Glacier National Park differs from Yellowstone National Park
in a few ways. Unlike Yellowstone, in Glacier there are few
open meadow along the roadside. Typically, you’ll have to
hike a short ways, there are nice boardwalks as well, to see
Glaciers attractions.
Glacier National Park also is focus on environmental
preservation and does not allow snowmobiles in the park.
Glacier also does not allow dogs outside of the owners
vehicles.
Glacier Park's Grizzly Bears
Glacier National Park is home to grizzly bears. Just a few
years ago the park service found the bones of an off duty
park ranger. At Glacier, do not hike alone or feed the
animals. When your hiking in the park, be sure to make noise
along the trail as not to spook a bear and or cubs. Glacier
National Park is a wonderful place to view bears in the
wild.
Glacier Fishing Opportunities
Glacier National Park is a great place to fish. Many of
Glacier’s lakes are deep and host varies of trout, salmon
and arctic grayling. You do not need a Montana State Drivers
license to fish in Glacier National Park.
Glacier’s Lake McDonald has no limit catches on lake trout.
Many of Glacier Park’s rivers and stream are excellent for
fly fishing.
Glacier National Park is also know as the international
peace park and spans over two countries, the US and Canada.
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