The national park is mostly shuttered in winter. But nearby Whitefish , Montana, is a hub of cold weather sports with a ski and snowboard resort ranked in the U. It also plays host to a wide range of other winter fun.
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Archaeological research has not yet discovered any occupation sites, although few such sites would have survived subsequent development for highway and railway operations. The long, snowy winters with their frequent deadly avalanches, the tangled and thick underbrush in summer, and poor hunting and fishing opportunities may have made most of the interior Selkirks, including what is now Glacier National Park, less attractive than the neighbouring valleys of the resource-rich Columbia River.
However, at least four aboriginal groups are known to have used the region. More work needs to be done to fill this gap in our understanding of the human heritage of the Selkirk Mountains. The park's first visitor facilities were developed by the railway company in response to the needs of its passengers.
The Glacier House hotel and recreation complex offered not only meals and accommodation, but also sightseeing, mountaineering, touring the Nakimu Caves and While the efforts to gain a "Glacier National Park" were ongoing, so were efforts by the Great Northern Railway to make the landscape more accommodating to tourists.
At the direction of Louis Hill, the railroad's president, work began on a series of lodges and Swiss-styled chalets across the park. Another milestone in the park's evolution, one that today arguably is the prime draw for most visitors, is the Going-to-the-Sun Road that stretches 50 miles between West Glacier to St.
Mary, climbing up and over the Continental Divide at Logan Pass along the way. It wasn't always clear that the "Sun Road," as it's popularly known, would run from West Glacier up to and over Logan Pass, then down to St. Mary on the eastern side of the park. Early on there were debates over the best routing of a cross-park road, with some wanting it to run in a southwesterly to northeasterly path from Apgar to Many Glacier, others wanting it to run all the way to Waterton Lake in British Columbia, and others still arguing for it to go by Gunsight Pass.
In the end the U. Bureau of Public Roads decided the current route made the most sense.
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