A few years ago, I took a class called Geology of the National Parks. Tbh, I slept through A LOT of the lectures (with much regret). I just wanted to go to a national park at the end. My very first national park. For our final, we had to plan a trip to a park of our choice and I chose Glacier National Park. So the past two days have been unreal… teary eyed and speechless. Yesterday, we hiked the most beautiful trail I’ve ever roamed. Wildflowers with a glacier backdrop, bighorn sheep, pristine glacier waterfalls and lakes, fresh mountain air, SO MANY trees, and we saw a bear on our way out the park. It’s places like this that rejuvenate your entire being. Thank you, Glacier!
Sincerely,
Glacier National Park
Glacier National Park preserves more than a million acres of forests, alpine meadows and lakes with habitat for a wide variety of plant and animal life.
State(s): Montana
Established: 1910
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Greetings from Glacier National Park
Family gatherings at Apgar since 1950s. My Dad’s favorite place to take us. We all have kept this tradition alive and will keep in our family generations to come.
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Greetings from Glacier National Park
I got to go to Glacier on a field trip for my Natural Resource Conservation class as a junior in high school. We spoke to some conservationists and did some activities like planting young trees and shrubs, as well as learning how to count and observe vegetation. It was an…
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