Glacier National Park

Glacier National Park

Glacier National Park

Glacier is a famous national park in the state of Montana, USA, which gives, first of all, the opportunity to see the snowy peaks of the mountains and the glaciers of the Rocky Mountains. First of all, they come here for this. The reflection of sunlight from the peaks of the mountains is a truly mesmerizing sight.

Glacier National Park

Glacier Park was founded in 1910 as a recreational reserve, and immediately began the development of the park's infrastructure, which improved significantly after the construction of the famous mountain road Going-to-the-sun Road in the 30s of the last century.

Glacier National Park

On the territory of the park there are about 200 waterfalls, 130 lakes, not counting very small ones, and about three dozen glaciers, which, unfortunately, are rapidly melting. Scientists predict that the last glacier in the park may melt by 2020.

Glacier National Park

About 10,000 years ago, the ice in Montana National Park was about 1 mile deep. In 1910, the year the park was founded, there were about 150 glaciers in it. Now only 25 of these giants have survived, and scientists suggest that they may completely disappear by 2030.

Glacier National Park

The heart of the national park, the Grinnell Glacier, has lost more than 90 percent of its ice over the past century. The reason for this is global warming, but things are even worse in the park than around the world: the temperature in this area has increased 1.8 times more than in other areas around the world. Not only glaciers are endangered - they have supported the park's ecosystem, so danger also looms over wolves, herds of elk and one of the largest populations of grizzly bears in America.