glacier
National park

Glacier Park was established in 1910. More than 2.7 million people visit Glacier each year.  Glacier is 1,013,549 acres, or 1,583 square miles. Glacier has 752 lakes, and 563 streams.

Glaciers that lie up against mountains erode ever-steeper cliffs by repeatedly freezing and thawing, plucking rock loose. The moving ice carries the broken rock down valley. Where glaciers surround a mountain peak they may eventually erode it to look like horn.

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Unlike rivers, glaciers erode wide bottomed, steep sided, u-shaped valleys. Large glaciers carve deeper valleys than do small glaciers. Where small mountain glaciers once joined a larger valley glacier, hanging valleys remain today.

Going-to-the-Sun Highway was completed in 1933.

Weeping Wall is located along Going-to-the-Sun Highway

There are 37 named Glaciers. The largest is Blackfoot Glacier at 423 acres.  This Glacier is named after the Blackfoot Indians whose reservation is located on the eastern edge of the park.

	Jackson Glacier

The following pictures show an avalanche path.

Here is the zone between the prairie and the mountians.

	Glacier National Park
		Late June!

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Last Updated February 2005