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Reviewed guide · Rocky Mountain

Glacier National Park

Unit code GLAC. Figures retrieved 2026-11-06. Official alerts, fees, and closures are not copied here.

Show on the atlas
Valley view from above waterfall
Public-domain National Park Service photograph. Credit: NPS / Tim Rains. Asset record.
States on the system list
Montana
Guide region
Rocky Mountain. Editorial grouping of the state that contains the centroid, or the first listed state when the point is offshore.
Anniversary-table date
May 11, 1910
Gross area acres
1,013,126.39

NPS fee acres: 1,012,843.24. Report date September 30, 2026. Gross area is not the same column as fee ownership.

Boundary centroid
48.6189, -113.7563

Containing shoreline polygon: Montana. Not an entrance.

Recreation-visit record
Highest monthly mean is in June, July, or August

Highest mean: July. Lowest mean: February. Mean annual total across complete years: 2,923,525 (10 complete years).

A separate preserve row exists in the same acreage report (GLACIER BAY N PRESERVE). It is not added to the national park figures on this page.

The monthly record

January: 15,978 mean recreation visitsFebruary: 15,607 mean recreation visitsMarch: 23,972 mean recreation visitsApril: 38,443 mean recreation visitsMay: 173,564 mean recreation visitsJune: 516,614 mean recreation visitsJuly: 787,452 mean recreation visitsAugust: 702,232 mean recreation visitsSeptember: 492,550 mean recreation visitsOctober: 115,299 mean recreation visitsNovember: 23,648 mean recreation visitsDecember: 18,168 mean recreation visitsJFMAMJJASOND
Mean of reported recreation visits by calendar month, 2016–2025. Gold is the lowest mean and rust is the highest. A missing bar was not reported. This is a historic average, not a live crowd count.
Monthly recreation-visit record
MonthMeanLowest yearHighest yearYears in the mean
January15,97812,22223,41710
February15,60711,24018,46110
March23,97219,33630,97610
April38,443055,12510
May173,5640238,76610
June516,614202,701620,96210
July787,452453,9771,009,66510
August702,232459,121908,47910
September492,550343,911602,33910
October115,29975,797165,01810
November23,64815,59430,82310
December18,16812,87728,19610

How to use this guide

Glacier National Park is the Montana park, not Glacier Bay. The two share a word and almost nothing a traveler can use: one is in the Rockies on the Canadian border, the other is an Alaska park with its own inset on the atlas. The straight-line gap between their centroids is a map fact. It is not a suggestion that they belong in one itinerary.

Going-to-the-Sun Road has its own official page when that page is open. This guide does not copy opening dates, vehicle limits, or mileposts from it. Those change. The visitation chart shows a strong seasonal record of entries. It does not tell you whether the pass is clear.

Official pages

These links were checked when the site was built. A working link is not a live feed. If a standard address did not respond, it is omitted.

Nearest other national parks

Distances are great-circle miles between boundary centroids. They are not road distances or travel times.