Welcome to the Yellow Cat Explore Series. In this guide to Glacier National Park, after making sure you can find your way around, have a place to camp, as well as food and gas, we’ll help you truly explore the park’s geology, history, prehistory, wildlife, and people.
For example, did you know that the historic hotels and chalets in the park were built by a railroad tycoon who was enamored with Swiss architecture? And that there are over 700 grizzlies who call the park home plus many more black bears? And that the iconic Red Jammer buses got their name from the drivers being called gearjammers?
Rumor has it that a ghost haunts the Weeping Wall, sometimes riding along in your vehicle as a passenger as you drive under the spray there, then mysteriously disappears. And did you know that the Going to the Sun Road is considered one of the most difficult roads in the country to plow with snow as deep as 98 feet at one snowfield called the Big Drift and with up to 80 feet of snow on top of Logan Pass?
Did you know that the mystery surrounding the disappearance of the two Whitehead brothers in 1924 has never been solved, even though they were the subject of the largest and most extensive search carried out in a national park at the time? Their disappearance changed the duties of park rangers everywhere to include search and rescue.
Our guide has lots of interesting facts you won’t find elsewhere. And who else has an in-the-field expert (Gus the Mountain Goat) who’s spent their entire life in the park? Join us in exploring legendary Glacier!
For example, did you know that the historic hotels and chalets in the park were built by a railroad tycoon who was enamored with Swiss architecture? And that there are over 700 grizzlies who call the park home plus many more black bears? And that the iconic Red Jammer buses got their name from the drivers being called gearjammers?
Rumor has it that a ghost haunts the Weeping Wall, sometimes riding along in your vehicle as a passenger as you drive under the spray there, then mysteriously disappears. And did you know that the Going to the Sun Road is considered one of the most difficult roads in the country to plow with snow as deep as 98 feet at one snowfield called the Big Drift and with up to 80 feet of snow on top of Logan Pass?
Did you know that the mystery surrounding the disappearance of the two Whitehead brothers in 1924 has never been solved, even though they were the subject of the largest and most extensive search carried out in a national park at the time? Their disappearance changed the duties of park rangers everywhere to include search and rescue.
Our guide has lots of interesting facts you won’t find elsewhere. And who else has an in-the-field expert (Gus the Mountain Goat) who’s spent their entire life in the park? Join us in exploring legendary Glacier!
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