Glaciers Galore!

Glacier National Park

May

What is the name of this lake-studded, mountainous
national wonder?

Located in Montana on the U.S.-Canadian border, this park covers more than a million acres and includes parts of two sub-ranges of the Rocky Mountains. It also contains more than 130 named lakes, 1,000 different species of plants, and hundreds of species of animals.

When I took the train out to Portland, Oregon, a few years ago, my seatmate (whose name I don't recall) detrained here, to spend a few days enjoying the pristine beauty of what is known as the "Crown of the Continent Ecosystem."

Did you know:

-- Water flows from this park into the Pacific, Atlantic, and Arctic oceans.

-- The only road in the park, called the Going-to-the-Sun Road, was completed in 1932 and is a National Historic Landmark and a Historic Civil Engineering Landmark. It stretches 53 miles across the width of the park.