Glacier National Park Chat

It will be a mess but, when speaking to the rangers in the past the lottery was getting to labor intensive for them. IMO its everyone's fault for telling to many people how beautiful the back country is. The first 6 back country hikes I put in for I got, so I thought it would be easy. Always got th...

Hi Teapot, Congrats on the permit- curious as to what you’re planning on the GLH day- Margaret? Sue? If it makes you feel any better, I think Rec.gov and Glacier split the $10. Im still due my trip report as well - this weekend is crunch time! I’m standing by the redundant comment- they’re not letti...

30 minutes for Going to the Sun and 10 minutes for North Fork and Many Glacier for the entire month of July when they went on sale the 1st.

https://flatheadbeacon.com/2023/03/06/g ... of-summer/

Select an area is singular, so if you have an itinerary that crosses multiple areas, you will have to bounce around areas with extra clicks. This is dumb. Tetons has an 'All' option, this is smart. Select an area is called 'select a starting area', which isn't accurate, as one could start in a diff...

teapot57 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 05, 2023 4:53 pm Thanks, Zozeppelin! Curious how you were able to navigate to the page you show as a sneak peek? I’d love to get into the system and feel my way around, if possible.

Hi Teapot - check your PMs. If anyone else would like a link, feel free to message me.

Let me try and break this down based on my experience with other parks, some sneak peaks and Glacier specific thoughts. First, Orin is 100% spot on - have your account created and logged in in advance, but not too soon such that you are logged off due to inactivity. Preferably on your computer with ...

Thanks, I think your conclusions that the road restrictions are unnecessary in places like Two Medicine, and the North Fork once the Sun road is fully open. I noticed that in Two medicine this year in late August that there was no over use happening even with no one attending the entrance station. ...

Zozeppelin, Interesting information - thanks for your work. On the numbers of cars turned away the hunrgy Horse News quoted a park spokesperson as saying it was about 400 a day last year on the Going to the Sun Road. That quote is in about the tenth paragraph of the article at this link: https://hu...

I updated the colors, hopefully those are more readable.

I have a couple other items cooking, but in the meantime, here is a front country campground summary:

Looks like the majority of comments were negative. I'd agree. NPS determined otherwise: In general, 46 letters (30%) expressed support for the action and 25 (16%) expressed opposition. The remaining 85 letters (55%) did not express support or opposition but many provided input in the form of sugges...

If you’re bored and/or want a laugh, here are the comments:
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Congressman reaction:

https://dailyinterlake.com/news/2023/ma ... on-system/

It would be good if someone could contact the moderators and make a plan to maintain administration (transition if necessary) such that the basics Iike new user approval and password resets can be achieved.

That’s a hot tip on HOL. I was thinking of trying to catch it on Aug30 in hopes of isolation, but logistics and timing don’t work. Second thought is to try and get there from northern circle in September and then backtrack. But I’m wanting to keep exploring new areas (and cover new passes) so I’ve b...

Reminder: large and medium size group permit applications are due tomorrow (Wednesday) on pay.gov