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The National Parks of America

and the Oregon Short Line to Butte, Mont., and thence by the Great Northern.

Stopovers are allowed on all through tickets over the Great Northern Railway to allow of as long a sojourn in the Park as one desires. On round-trip tickets, during the Park season, this is without regard to the time limit indicated.

Accommodations and Transportation — Costs

Trips through the Park may be taken with equal advantage from either entrance, but to approach the Park from the east possibly gives one a more imposing impression of the grandeur of the scenery. It is here that is situated the unique and beautiful Glacier Park Hotel (American Plan — $4 per day upward) notable for its adaptation of châlet architecture and the novel use of huge tree trunks in its construction. In the ten permanent camps operated by the Great Northern Railway throughout the Park very satisfactory accommodations and meals are furnished at $3 per day, so that even a long sojourn need not call for an excessive outlay of money. The camps are composed of log buildings, built in the