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February 14, 1986 [1] The Gunsight Pass Shelter in Glacier National Park is a rustic stone building near the treeline. The one-room shelter is equipped with a woodstove. Work began on the shelter in September 1931 and was complete in June 1932 to a design by the National Park Service Landscape Division. The design was inspired by similar cabins ...
Max. width. .25 miles (0.40 km) Surface elevation. 5,351 ft (1,631 m) Gunsight Lake is located in Glacier National Park, in the U.S. state of Montana. The lake is surrounded by high peaks including Fusillade Mountain to the north and Gunsight Mountain to the west. Mount Jackson rises more than 4,700 feet (1,400 m) above Gunsight Lake to the south.
Glacier National Park is a national park of the United States located in northwestern Montana, on the Canada–United States border, adjacent to Waterton Lakes National Park in Canada—the two parks are known as the Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park. The park encompasses more than 1 million acres (4,100 km 2) and includes parts of two ...
Glacier Park Boat Company offers tours of numerous lakes in Glacier National Park. The tour boat Little Chief has carried visitors since 1926 and now docks at St. Mary Lake.
Going-to-the-Sun Road is a scenic mountain road in the Rocky Mountains of the western United States, in Glacier National Park in Montana.The Sun Road, as it is sometimes abbreviated in National Park Service documents, is the only road that traverses the park, crossing the Continental Divide through Logan Pass at an elevation of 6,646 feet (2,026 m), which is the highest point on the road. [3]
Like other mountains in Glacier National Park, Gunsight Mountain is composed of sedimentary rock laid down during the Precambrian to Jurassic periods. Formed in shallow seas, this sedimentary rock was initially uplifted beginning 170 million years ago when the Lewis Overthrust fault pushed an enormous slab of precambrian rocks 3 mi (4.8 km) thick, 50 miles (80 km) wide and 160 miles (260 km ...
Feb. 29—Glacier National Park officials are initiating public scoping for an environmental assessment necessary to update the park's long-term wildfire management plan. An updated plan is needed ...
There are at least 150 named mountain peaks over 8,000 feet (2,400 m) in Glacier in three mountain ranges --the Clark Range, Lewis Range, Livingston Range. Mount Cleveland at 10,479 feet (3,194 m) [1] is the highest peak in the park. [2] Many peaks in Glacier National Park have both English and anglicized versions of native American names.