Glacier National Park is one of the grand parks of the west and in 1910 was added to the early list of national parks. Glacier, in northwestern Montana, is bordered by the Flathead National Forest, the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, and Waterton Lakes Park, Canada. Both Waterton Lakes and Glacier National Park were inseparably linked in 1932 to become the world''s first International Peace Park, professing a vision where people set aside their differences.

The 1,802 square miles of the combined parks make up a significant portion of the Crown of the Continent Ecosystem, where ecosystems from north, south, east and west converge at the most narrow point in the Rocky Mountains. Due to this, and federal protection, plants from diverse environments along with all the native carnivores survive here. Glacier also has numerous cultural resources including six national historic landmarks most of which are hotels. The Going-to-the-Sun Road National Historic Landmark is the only road transecting the park, providing a broad-spectrum sample of the park''s center.

Glacier has numerous accessible programs and facilities and is in the process of evaluating and upgrading the broad spectrum of the public’s needs.