There is something about pitching a tent in a national park. It becomes not just your refuge from the weather and bugs, but your home, your comfort zone in the natural world. Is there any more relaxing night than one spent in a tent, preferably gazing through a no-see-um mesh roof so you can watch the stars?
Glacier National Park
To encourage eco-friendly operations, the National Park Service presents Environmental Achievement Awards each year to parks and concession companies that have excelled in incorporating high environmental standards into their operations. The 2007 awards were presented to Blue Ridge Parkway, Yosemite National Park, Delaware North Companies Parks and Resorts, and Xanterra Parks & Resorts.
Glacier National Park Officials Plan to Scale Down Search for Missing Hiker
Glacier National Park officials, frustrated by six days of fruitless searching for a missing hiker, say they'll scale back efforts on Tuesday unless new leads are discovered.
- By Kurt Repanshek - August 28th, 2008 3:01pm
Glacier National Park
MSNBC’s Top 10 National Park Lodges List Draws Curmudgeonly, but Gentle Criticism
MSNBC has compiled a Top 10 National Park Lodges list for the purpose of helping us choose where to “sleep in style on a summer escape to our nation's national parks.” They might want to re-state that. Two of the lodges aren’t in the United States and another is said to be in a park that, technically speaking, doesn’t exist yet.
- By Bob Janiskee - August 11th, 2008 5:42pm
Glacier National Park Officials Again Voice Opposition to Railroad's Avalanche Blasting Proposal
Roughly a year after they first voiced their opposition to a railroad's plan to use bombs to defuse avalanche danger along the southern flanks of Glacier National Park, park officials are reiterating that opposition.
NPCA, TWS Presidents Meet With Canadian Ambassador To Seek Solution to Development in Flathead Valley
How environmentally sensitive is the Canadian government? Can the presidents of two of the United States' conservation groups convince the government not to allow development in the headwaters of the Flathead Valley that lies upstream of Glacier National Park and across from Waterton Lakes National Park?
Glacier National Park's Going-to-the-Sun Road Open End to End
It took longer than usual, but the Going-to-the-Sun Road in Glacier National Park has been opened from end-to-end.
- By Kurt Repanshek - July 2nd, 2008 10:42am
Celebrating Glacier National Park's Going-to-the-Sun Road
It's an engineering wonder, one that not only delights, but also perplexes and confounds, both motorists and road crews. And today the 75th birthday of the Going-to-the-Sun Road in Glacier National Park is being celebrated. It's a time to both reflect on the history of this 50-mile pathway across the park's interior and look as well at the effort to rebuild it.
Sun Road Points of Interest.pdf
- By Kurt Repanshek - June 26th, 2008 3:05pm
Geotourism Map Shows You Around the Crown of the Continent
There's a new map you should toss in your bag if you're heading to Glacier National Park. It's not a traditional road map, but rather a map that helps you navigate the "Crown of the Continent" and all it has to offer.
- By Kurt Repanshek - June 6th, 2008 7:00pm
Sen. Obama On Record Opposing Cline Mine North of Glacier National Park
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has gone on record opposing the Cline Mine proposed to burrow into an area of pristine wilderness of British Columbia just to the north of Glacier National Park.
- By Kurt Repanshek - June 3rd, 2008 9:42am
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