The most visited place in Montana, Glacier National Park is a crown jewel in America's National Park System. The park derived its name from the more than 50 perennial ice fields within its 1600 square miles of pristine wilderness that spans the Continental Divide. The park has over 200 alpine lakes, 700 miles of maintained hiking trails and almost 1000 miles of creeks, rivers and waterfalls.
Mystical, primal forests, rugged majestic mountains and wildflower blanketed alpine meadows are all part of one of the largest, bio-diverse and intact ecosystems to be found in the lower 48 states. In 1979, the United Nations designated Waterton - Glacier International Peace Park as the world's first International Biosphere Reserve. Further honors were bestowed upon the park in 1995 when UNESCO honored the park's international significance by designating it a World Heritage Site.
For over 20,000 years glaciers have crafted and carved this majestic landscape. A glacier is a slowly moving mass of snow and ice formed when more snow falls each winter than melts in the following summer. The heavy snowfall accumulates and the weight creates pressure and forms the lower layers into solid ice. The bottom layer is flexible, allowing the glacier to progress. As glaciers move they pick up boulders, rocks and gravel which sculpts and scrapes the land it travels across. Over thousands of years, glacial movement forged the magnificent sharp mountain peaks, deep valleys and lakes that make up the extraordinary landscape of the park.
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