Glacier National Park

Pros: Some of the best scenery you'll ever see; great hikes.
Cons: Accommodations are very inconsistent; service is spotty in several lodges.

Glacier National Park is a true jewel. It is well worth a visit and early September is ideal - the crowds have thinned out and the weather is often sunny with highs only in the 70's. Accommodations are limited and quality uneven. Our experience was ...

Pros: Historic Housing, Car Camping, Services, Historic Buses, Free Shuttles, Ranger Guided Hikes, Nearby Airport
Cons: Solo Hiker/Backpacker OUT OF LUCK, NOISY Hiking Required Due to Bears

John Muir said about this park at the turn of the century-- "Get off the tracks at Belton Station, and in a few minutes you will find yourself in the midst of what you are sure to say is the best care-killing scenery on the continent. Give a month at ...

Pros: wildlife, hikes
Cons: tourists were more friendly than locals

We hiked over 50 miles in 6 days. Our group consisted of 15 people - 9 males and 6 females, ages 9 – 46. My 11-year old nephew recently broke his leg and had his cast removed 7 days before hiking Iceberg Trail (10 miles round trip). He brought along a ...

Pros: Very scenic with many trails
Cons: The glaciers will soon be memories

Glacier National Park contains more than seven hundred miles of hiking trails. The park is in the Rocky Mountains and there are definitely some trails that involve serious climbing. However, there are also trails with very little change in elevation, ...

Pros: Scenery if you can see it. Encounters with wildlife: bears, bighorn sheep, and many deer.
Cons: Poor and badly organized shuttle system. Check fire and weather reports from independent sources.

We were unlucky to come to Glacier National Park in the summer of 03, the summer of fires. Well, we couldn't see anything and we were greatly surprised that it was open at all! At Adgar Village smoke was hanging thick inside the hotel and they still dar ...

Pros: grizzly bears, excellent trails, beautiful sites
Cons: grizzly bears, tourist traps, crowded at times

It's difficult to describe the breath-taking sites surrounding you when you take a trip to Glacier National Park. But it's absolutely beautiful! If you've been, then you know what I'm talking about. If you've never been, and you're contemplating a trip,...

Pros: A beautiful place to relax and unwind.
Cons: None.

My husband and I visited this wonderful National Park last year in mid October. The weather was a little cool for my tastes, but I like it hot! I am a Florida girl living in Texas, so hot weather is in my blood.

The scenery is absolutely...

Pros: Breathtaking views of sites.
Cons: None.

Canada's counterpart -- Waterton National Park -- adjoins Glacier's boundaries into Canada. The Continental Divide winds along the backbone of Glacier and in a sense creates two entirely unique environments. The western side -- Lake McDonald -- is...

Pros: Beef in excelsis at the Cattle Baron and serious desserts
Cons: Montana is no place for vegetarians to try to eat

I'm not sure that the Cattle Baron Supper Club--which is close to being Babb, Montana, rather than being in Babb--is the best steakhouse in the West, as ralph27's epinion claimed. I've only been in four western states this millennium and there are ...

Pros: Nice and quiet not to many people around
Cons: Not to many people around!

O.K. Glacier National Park is beautiful and quiet and not all crowded with folks. But that’s what scares me. I mean I have an overactive imagination. I thought now what kind of animals are out here with us while we are all ALONE. I would rather be at a...

Pros: Glacier offers outstanding scenery, solitude, and extensive opportunities for day-long to week-long hiking.
Cons: Campgrounds options are few, pricey, and suffer from a lack of privacy.

So we discovered on the trail to Grinnell Glacier, a 5.5 mile one way (we have it on good advice that the signs aren't too accurate) stunning, uphill, full-of-wildflower-meadows-and-bear-signs hike. The terrain is diverse - you climb through three...

Pros: Clean air, beautiful lake, and best of all there are many places to visit.
Cons: I did not find any cons when I was there.

I was on a scenic bus trip that started in Washington State then circled through Canada and Wyoming, then back to Washington State, WOW what places we saw. Like Lake Louise, Calgary and Glacier National Park.

I had never before seen such...

Pros: Pristine wilderness! What more can you ask for? I love Glacier.
Cons: The lake Sherburne Dam and the GPI concessions.

I spent four summers in Glacier working at a cafe on the East side of the park between St. Mary's and Babb...so I will concentrate my opinion on the Eastern slope of the park. First of all there is only one road through the park "going to the sun road"...

Pros: the beauty of it is unlike no other
Cons: roads are extremely windy

While living in Montana for several years I had the great experience of being able to visit Glacier. The trip from home was lengthy but after arriving at the park it was surely worth it. The magestic mountains zoom right out at you. The waterfalls, the...

Pros: Plenty of trails and soul-calming scenery
Cons: Short season and out-of-the-way location

Prologue
It was really a fluke that we ended up at Glacier. It seems so out of the way, tucked up in the corner like that. Who would go there. I don't know what possessed us to think that we could drive from Chicago to western Montana without...