Visitation fees for international visitors to Yellowstone and Glacier national parks are slated to increase substantially in 2026. On Tuesday, the Interior Department announced that the National Park Service will levy a $100 surcharge on international visitors to 11 of the country’s most popular national parks starting on Jan. 1.

For generations, the glacier fanned out across the lake that it carved out. Now, after two decades of rapid retreat, scientists say it’s separated from the water completely.

It comes as a rare snowfall, given that the park was once home to hundreds of glaciers. Climate change has now reduced them to just a few dozen.

Waterton Lakes National Park in Alberta, Canada, is connected to Glacier National Park in Montana, and you can visit both.

Long before it became Glacier National Park, the park says, the Kootenai called the area “Ya·qawiswit̓xuki, meaning ‘the place where there is a lot of ice.’ ” There’s still ice. The park is home to about two dozen glaciers. But there are also ...

The entrance to Glacier National Park in 2020. (Courtesy of Glacier National Park). Glacier National Park welcomed a record number of visitors in September, according to visitation data released by the National Park Service last week. More than 600,000 ...

GLACIER NATIONAL PARK — Vehicle reservations for Glacier National Park will end on Sept. 9, Sept. 8 is the last day vehicle reservations are required. Reservations will end for Going-to-the-Sun Road via the West Entrance, the North Fork and Many Glacier.

The Flathead County Planning Office has referred Mule Shoe Outfitters to the county attorney’s office for a zoning violation in West Glacier concerning a helicopter tour company that operated on the property this summer.

(NEXSTAR) — Three people from Florida were taken to the hospital after falling into water at Glacier National Park while taking a photo. Rangers at the Montana park said they received several satellite SOS reports for individuals who had fallen into ...