r/GlacierNationalPark

Hello! I was looking for an faq so I didn’t ask questions people are tired of answering but wasn’t able to find a good source for everything lol. It will be my first time visiting and wanted to familiarize myself with shuttles, popular trails, park schedules, best places to stay, etc. I’ll be flying into FCA and am a little bit nervous about driving into the park/what the conditions are like there. Any tips or links would be very appreciated!

I’ve only visited CA and AZ national parks and want to be prepared and knowledgeable as I can be before visiting Glacier!

Is it scalpers? Indian/Chinese/Russians bots? People who don't care and are buying it "just in case" they visit?

A $100 charge on your card per pass if you don't show up or cancel your pass would fix all this. Even the simple threat of it is enough to stop the bullshit scalpers/bots/undecided people.

Greetings All. I won the backcountry permit lottery this year, being awarded a slot on the first day permits opened. Lucky me! I chose to do the Bowman-Kintla hike over four nights, just because I had the pick of the litter. My hiking companion just cancelled so I'd be doing the hike solo. Ideally, someone who is an experienced hiker with GNP familiarity, non-sketchy, and generally enjoyable to be around (like me). I also hike fairly fast. I have (4) permits so a single person, couple, or someone willing to share a tent with a friend would work as two tents are permitted.

Here's my itinerary:

8/1 Bowman (BOW)

8/2 Hole in the Wall (HOL)

8/3 Boulder Pass (BOU)

8/4 Upper Kintla Lake (UPK)

8/5 exit Kintla

If interested, please DM me and tell me about yourself, at least your hiking experience and comfort level so we can get the conversation started. I should arrive in Polebridge either 7/30 or 7/31 and plan to pick up the permit on 7/31. Thanks!

Me and my 3 friends did high line without a shuttle ticket reservation. Didn’t know this before but every morning tons of shuttle tickets are reserved and not used, they go into the stand by line. We got in line at 5:30 for the 6am shuttle and every person in the standby line got on, the stand by line was longer than the actual line. Keep in mind the stand by line is everyone who couldn’t get a ticket reserved the day before. I was told by an employee that the day before we went only 40 spots were taken up and 3 buses weren’t even used, he told me that ur pretty much guaranteed to get on in the standby line

So don’t stress, get up early, get in that standby line and go hike high line or whatever you wanna do

Extra PSA: the fog in high line is really bad sadly

My girlfriend and I are leaving July 27th for glacier and we would like to hike the Highline Trail. However we do not have a shuttle pass to get there and they are all sold out. What should we do? I was going to see if anyone on here was planning on driving up there July 29th in the am to give us a ride(I am willing to pay) if so please let me know. Otherwise I saw you can get a pass the night before but I don’t know if I should rely on this. Highline is the trial we are most looking forward to and it is going to be a bummer if we cannot do. If anyone has a suggestions please let me know. Thank you

I know smoke and weather is unpredictable but please be kind enough to give some insight or if anyone has any experience with this

Me and 3 of my buddies will be in Glacier then Banff from August 5th-17th

I’ve been planning the trip for a couple months, all the campsites reserved and got lucky enough to land shuttle tickets, but from everything I’m seeing the smoke out there is really bad and won’t be clearing up any time soon

So in all honestly from experience, does the smoke not go away and will it actually take away from the experience, we want to go too see all the Mountain Views and do major hikes like Grinell Glacier and Highline but are worried the smoke will take away from a lot of the experience

Is it enough to just post pone to another year and switch the itinerary and go to a different park or will it be ok enough that we can still get the full experience

It would just be rather unfortunate to spend all that money and time to not get a great experience

Have a trip to Glacier in a week and worried the wildfire smoke will affect some of the hikes we have planned. Are current conditions pretty good? Is there a site to help monitor?