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Glacier National Park
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heights of inviting awesomeness. In Glacier Park you can come as close as you wish to the "great heart of nature"; but even the old and infirm may see much of the Park without discomfort, owing to the automobile transportation between several of the camps and the well regulated hostelries that offer their large hospitality in various parts of the Park.

The tourist season in Glacier National Park is from June fifteenth to October first.

How to Reach the Park

There are two principal entrances to Glacier Park, both of them on the main line of the Great Northern Railway. At the southeastern corner one enters at Glacier Park Station, and at the southwestern end the entrance is made at Belton. Either of these is quite accessible from Chicago and other eastern points, and Seattle and other parts of the northwest by way of the Great Northern Railway. From the southeast and middle west the Park is reached by the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad connecting at Billings, Mont., with the Great Northern Railway, and from the southwest via the Southern Pacific