Vacation in Glacier National Park

Attracting over two-and-a-half million visitors each year, Glacier National Park's incredible scenic beauty, endless adventure and impressivenatural wonder speaks for itself. A Glacier Park vacation is a nature lover's trip through nirvana. With close to one-million-and-a-half acres of all-natural adventure, there is an abundance to see and explore and even the most adventurous outdoorsman or woman will find it impossible to experience everything that the park has to offer.

If you like to hike, bike or cross-country ski, then you will absolutely adore Glacier’s 700 plus miles of backcountry trails which range from short easy day hikes to multi-day backcountry excursions. Glacier's multitude of trails offer a variety of terrain, scenery, and elevation gains. With all that Glacier Park has to offer, there is a perfect Glacier Park vacation itinerary available for every adventurer, regardless of physical ability and/or personal desire.

However, if you are not much of a hiker, fear not, because foot-power is only one of many ways to enjoy Glacier Park. Glacier also offers one of the most spectacular scenic drives in the United States. The "Sun-Road", which was built in the 1930's, is a major engineering marvel of epic proportions. Going-to-the-Sun-Road bisects the park and connects St. Mary village on the eastern perimeter of the park with the town of West Glacier in the south-west corner of the park.

During the 2007 season the national park service introduced a free transit system to Glacier Park. This popular service offers free shuttle rides approximately every half-hour between the Apgar transit center on the west side of the park, (located near the southern shores of Lake McDonald), and the St. Mary transit center on the east side of the park. The ability to relax and enjoy the scenic beauty of the Glacier countryside without worrying about keeping an eye on the road has proven to be a popular new feature for Glacier's many annual visitors.

With more than 1.4 million acres of pristine scenery, wildlife and adventure, Glacier National Park is a vacation destination which will be hard to leave, and impossible to forget. For more details on planning your vacation in Glacier National Park including what activities and lodging options are available, please visit National Park Reservations using the link above.

Ryan Becker is a travel & adventure writer and photographer. Ryan keeps a blog on the subject of adventure travel and vacations called Traveling Adventure. Ryan also runs a successful travel and vacation business which pays you to vacation! You can get more details by visiting the MOR Vacations blog.