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Goat Haunt Ranger Station
The rangers that served the park in the early days were me...
Going-to-the-Sun Road
The Going-to-the-Sun Road, named by Park Naturalist Geo...
Civilian Conservation Corps Garages
The Civilian Conservation Corps equipment sheds and the as...
Fire Cache
An integral part of the management of the park’s fire crew...
Fire Management Office
The year of park establishment, 1910 was a monumental year...
Employee Dormitories and Mess Hall
The first park dormitory and mess hall were completed in 1...
Administration building
William Logan, Glacier National Park’s first superintenden...
Granite Park Chalets/ Many Glacier Hotel
By 1915 Granite Park Chalets and the Many Glacier Hotel we...
Lake McDonald
Completion of the Great Northern Railway in 1891 allowed m...
Marias Pass
From west of the divide, the group most frequently associa...
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Goat Haunt Ranger Station
The rangers that served the park in the early days were men who brought many outdoor skills to the job. Some, like Dan Doody and Chance Beebee, were local homesteaders in need of regular employment. Some, like Norton Pearly, were ...
Going-to-the-Sun Road
The Going-to-the-Sun Road, named by Park Naturalist George C. Ruhle in 1929, is the only trans-mountain road within the boundaries of the park. It gives the visitor who is unable to get into the back country on the trails, a ...
Civilian Conservation Corps Garages
The Civilian Conservation Corps equipment sheds and the associated boulevard lie on both sides of the wide median in the maintenance yard. Construction of the sheds began in 1941. The sheds were originally built to store the heavy equipment used ...
Fire Cache
An integral part of the management of the park’s fire crew, the fire cache was built in 1933 and houses tools along with a map room and radio room for dispatch complete with a telephone switchboard. Previously, the building served ...
Fire Management Office
The year of park establishment, 1910 was a monumental year for fire in the western U.S. Glacier National Park has had a fire management operations office for over 70 years, and the first office was located in the fire cache ...
Employee Dormitories and Mess Hall
The first park dormitory and mess hall were completed in 1927. The second dorm was built by Civilian Conservation Corps Crews in1933-34. The Civilian Conservation Corps was active from 1933-1942 and was comprised of young men who were out of ...
Administration building
William Logan, Glacier National Park’s first superintendent hired in 1910, focused his initial construction projects on the creation of a park administrative center and on a system of roads and trails. In late 1910, soon after the area was converted ...
Granite Park Chalets/ Many Glacier Hotel
By 1915 Granite Park Chalets and the Many Glacier Hotel were completed and opened for business; this completed and put into operation the major portion of the Great Northern Hotels in the park. These, along with the private hotels and ...
Lake McDonald
Completion of the Great Northern Railway in 1891 allowed more people to enter the area. The rich natural resources of the land west of Marias Pass attracted enterprising individuals seeking to make homes in this wilderness. Lake McDonald and its ...
Marias Pass
From west of the divide, the group most frequently associated with Glacier National Park is the Tobacco Plains Band, once located near Eureka, Montana. These people hunted and quarried workable stone (chert). Linguistically and culturally, these people, the Kootenai (spelled ...
