Glacier National Park

Wild Goose Island Overlook at Glacier National Park

Glacier National Park is certainly a must see park in park, right up there with Yellowstone National Park. Glacier is a great part of any Montana vacation, offering some of the best in backpacking, fishing, camping, ranch vacations and rafting in the Rockies. Nearby, you'll find cozy Montana hotels and lodging, restaurants and vacation rentals. With its distinctive glacier-cut mountain ranges, pristine streams, lush mountain meadows, old-growth cedar forests, waterfalls and lakes, Glacier National Park should be at the top of any Montana vacation list.

Glacier National Park covers 1,600 square miles of the beautiful mountains, so if you want to get away from it all for a bit, this is the place. Its pristine beauty makes Glacier National Park a must visit for photographers, hikers and backpackers and people who want to experience a real wilderness. But with more than 700 miles of trails, hiking or horseback riding are some of the most popular activities. Glacier National Park is in the northern Rockies sharing a border with the Waterton Lakes National Park in Alberta, Canada. Together, Waterton Lakes and Glacier National Park create the Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park World Heritage Site, which makes for a perfect Montana-Canada vacation.

With so much space to run wild, and so much to do, you may want to consider a guided tour for your trip. You'll find many experienced guides that can take you on the best hiking, fly fishing, backpacking, rafting or horseback riding vacations of you life.

When you're ready to come back indoors, you'll plenty of historic lodges and hotels in Glacier, and the surrounding communities of Whitefish, Kalispell and Columbia Falls.

This year, 2010, will be a special one is Glacier. Established in 1910, the Glacier National Park centennial will be celebrated this year, with music, festivals, tours and presentations.