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Montana/Alberta

Glacier and Waterton Lakes National Parks

Program No. 19946RJ
Discover historic National Park lodges and magnificent displays of nature as you enjoy an immersive educational experience in two of North America’s most magnificent national parks.

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DATES & starting prices
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Jul 8 - Jul 15, 2024
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3,999
Itinerary Note

At Prince of Wales Hotel (2 nights), there are a limited number of rooms with two beds available. If you register as double occupancy with a travel partner, you are not guaranteed two beds in the room at this hotel.

Jul 15 - Jul 22, 2024
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3,999
Itinerary Note

At Prince of Wales Hotel (2 nights), there are a limited number of rooms with two beds available. If you register as double occupancy with a travel partner, you are not guaranteed two beds in the room at this hotel.

Jul 22 - Jul 29, 2024
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3,999
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At Prince of Wales Hotel (2 nights), there are a limited number of rooms with two beds available. If you register as double occupancy with a travel partner, you are not guaranteed two beds in the room at this hotel.

Aug 5 - Aug 12, 2024
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3,999
Aug 12 - Aug 19, 2024
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3,999
Itinerary Note

At Prince of Wales Hotel (2 nights), there are a limited number of rooms with two beds available. If you register as double occupancy with a travel partner, you are not guaranteed two beds in the room at this hotel.

Aug 19 - Aug 26, 2024
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3,999
Aug 26 - Sep 2, 2024
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3,999
Sep 2 - Sep 9, 2024
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3,999
Itinerary Note

At Prince of Wales Hotel (2 nights), there are a limited number of rooms with two beds available. If you register as double occupancy with a travel partner, you are not guaranteed two beds in the room at this hotel.

DATES & starting prices
PRICES
Filling Fast!
Jul 8 - Jul 15, 2024
Starting at
5,399
Itinerary Note

At Prince of Wales Hotel (2 nights), there are a limited number of rooms with two beds available. If you register as double occupancy with a travel partner, you are not guaranteed two beds in the room at this hotel.

Jul 15 - Jul 22, 2024
Starting at
5,399
Itinerary Note

At Prince of Wales Hotel (2 nights), there are a limited number of rooms with two beds available. If you register as double occupancy with a travel partner, you are not guaranteed two beds in the room at this hotel.

Jul 22 - Jul 29, 2024
Starting at
5,399
Itinerary Note

At Prince of Wales Hotel (2 nights), there are a limited number of rooms with two beds available. If you register as double occupancy with a travel partner, you are not guaranteed two beds in the room at this hotel.

Filling Fast!
Aug 5 - Aug 12, 2024
Starting at
5,399
Filling Fast!
Aug 12 - Aug 19, 2024
Starting at
5,399
Itinerary Note

At Prince of Wales Hotel (2 nights), there are a limited number of rooms with two beds available. If you register as double occupancy with a travel partner, you are not guaranteed two beds in the room at this hotel.

Aug 19 - Aug 26, 2024
Starting at
5,399
Filling Fast!
Aug 26 - Sep 2, 2024
Starting at
5,399
Filling Fast!
Sep 2 - Sep 9, 2024
Starting at
5,399
Itinerary Note

At Prince of Wales Hotel (2 nights), there are a limited number of rooms with two beds available. If you register as double occupancy with a travel partner, you are not guaranteed two beds in the room at this hotel.

At a Glance

Explore two jewels of the "Crown of the Continent" — Glacier National Park in Montana and Waterton Lakes National Park in Alberta. These magnificent parks combined in 1932 to create the world's first international peace park, bridging the United States and Canada with the beauty and serenity of the Rocky Mountains.
Activity Level
Keep the Pace
Walking up to two miles on maintained natural surface dirt trails in mountainous terrain. The ability to climb stairs and get on and off a motor coach and boat is required. Elevations of 3,000-7,200 feet.

Best of all, you’ll…

  • Immerse yourself in the history, beauty and untamed wilderness of this soaring wonderland through its historic lodges, amazing geological features and diverse flora and fauna.
  • Enjoy daily field trips that showcase some of the most intact wildland on the entire continent.
  • Discover breathtaking views, rugged peaks, vast glacier-carved valleys and thundering cascades as you journey over the historic Going-to-the-Sun Road aboard an iconic Red Bus.
Featured Expert
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Ellen Horowitz
Ellen Horowitz is a writer, adjunct professor of botany at Flathead Valley Community College, and a long-time natural history instructor with the Glacier Institute whose outdoor education career spans 40 years. Her work has been recognized with numerous honors including Montana Audubon’s Educator of the Year Award, and magazine writing awards from the National Wildlife Federation. She is author of the award-winning children’s book, “What I Saw in Glacier.” Ellen and her husband live on a farm with their dog and eight mules.

Please note: This expert may not be available for every date of this program.

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Ellen Horowitz is a writer, adjunct professor of botany at Flathead Valley Community College, and a long-time natural history instructor with the Glacier Institute whose outdoor education career spans 40 years. Her work has been recognized with numerous honors including Montana Audubon’s Educator of the Year Award, and magazine writing awards from the National Wildlife Federation. She is author of the award-winning children’s book, “What I Saw in Glacier.” Ellen and her husband live on a farm with their dog and eight mules.
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Ashley started her career at the North Carolina School of the Art but transferred to Guilford College in Greensboro, North Carolina to receive her B.S. in Geology with a minor in field biology. Ashley then came to Montana to teach for the Glacier Institute and then completed graduate work at The University of Montana – Missoula in Environmental Studies. A veteran naturalist and conservation educator Ashley is a former Ranger Naturalist for Glacier National Park. In 2012 she was voted Audubon Educator of the year.
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Throughout her lifetime, Leila Robinson has developed a great love of the outdoors and especially exploring it in hiking mode. Her love of travel and nature has taken her to every continent, and she is thrilled to see and experience each journey. She has been a high school and college educator in art and interdisciplinary studies and also a museum program developer for 13 years. Being able to live in Glacier for the past nine summers has given her a true appreciation of this incredible and favorite national park.
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Denny Olson holds a master’s degree and was trained as a biologist and geologist, but his approach to illuminating nature with humor is better illustrated by one of his less formal titles: Professor Avian Guano. Denny is a published author, an educator with more than 30 years’ experience, and a master performer inspired by Native American storytelling traditions. He enjoys sharing his intimate knowledge of, and love for, Glacier National Park.
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Susan Atkinson is an award-winning architect and professor of environmental design at the University of Colorado Boulder. She has traveled the world researching how people design and build in response to culture and climate. Susan grew up in the Flathead Valley, learning about wildflowers, and spotting grizzlies in Glacier National Park every summer since 1980. She is an avid trail runner who loves fly fishing, spending time with her rescue dog, Clover, and reading about wolverines. She has backpacked around the world.
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Pat Van Eimeren, originally a “cheesehead” from Wisconsin, has been in Montana for more than 30 years. He recently retired as a Fisheries Biologist for the Flathead National Forest. Pat has a passion for wild places and wild creatures. In the winter, he works atop Whitefish Mountain Resort as a Mountain Ambassador, and in the summer he will be deep in the solitude of the Bob Marshall Wilderness with a fly rod in hand. He enjoys all the recreational venues that Montana has to offer.
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Wildflowers of Glacier National Park
by Shannon Kimball and Peter Lesica
Wildflowers of Glacier National Park and Surrounding Areas is a user-friendly field guide featuring over 300 of Glacier National Park's most common plant species. From wildflowers to trees to grasses and sedges, this book features beautiful photographs, detailed descriptions, notes on habitat and fun facts for each plant. It's a perfect plant reference for anyone with an interest in the natural history and splendor of Glacier National Park.
Grizzly Country
by Andy Russell
The grizzly bear has always inspired awe in man, but the animal's true nature and character has long been shrouded in myth. Few people know grizzlies as Andy Russell does, and in Grizzly Country he shares stories from a lifetime of experience observing them, first as hunter, then as cameraman. In wonderfully engaging prose, he reveals the life cycle of this remarkable creature.
Going-to-the-Sun Road: Glacier National Park's Highway to the Sky
by C.W. Guthrie
Traveling Glacier National Park’s Going-to-the-Sun Road is an experience like no other. Laborers toiled for nearly 20 years to complete the 50-mile road that winds an impossible route through the heart of Glacier. One of the most scenic highways in the world, this marvel of engineering set the standard for all national parks. C. W. Guthrie tells the intriguing tale of the history and the construction of the epic Going-to-the-Sun Road. Includes more than 60 black-and-white historic and color photographs, maps.
Geology Along Going-to-the-Sun Road
by Raup, Earhart, Whipple, and Carrara
With this colorful and lively guide, Glacier National Park visitors can tour the fascinating geologic events that created the park's majestic scenery. Complete with an easy-to-read map that offers a three-dimensional perspective on the area's geology, Geology Along Going-to-the-Sun Road gives lay readers and geologists alike a glimpse into Glacier's unique geologic summary.
Moon Glacier National Park: Including Waterton Lakes National Park
by Becky Lomax
Writer, editor, and avid outdoorswoman Becky Lomax offers an insider’s perspective on Glacier National Park. From walking through multi-color meadows filled with wildflowers to observing the Sperry Glacier, a victim of global warming that will vanish in less than two decades, Lomax knows the best ways to enjoy the park’s one million acres of wilderness. She also includes unique trip strategies for travelers with specific interests and restrictions, including a Wildlife-Watching tour and a whirlwind One Day in Glacier tour. Whether it’s biking up Going-to-the-Sun Road or watching a grizzly forage in huckleberries, Moon Glacier National Park gives travelers the tools they need to create a more personal and memorable experience.
Glacier - A Natural History Guide
by David Rockwell
Author and naturalist David Rockwell presents in-depth descriptions of the geology, history, flora, and fauna of the park. He explains the park's evolution from the erosion of Siberian mountains more than a billion years ago to the glaciers that gave Glacier National Park its distinctive landscape. He examines the park's great predators-grizzly bears, mountain lions, and wolves-and their complex relationship with their prey. The result is a fascinating and intimate portrait of one of the world's last wild places.
The Great Divide: The Rocky Mountains in the American Mind
by Gary Ferguson
For most of our nation's history, Americans have identified with the "purple mountain majesties" of the Rockies. Trappers and debutantes, miners and missionaries, artists and drinkers, escaped slaves, independent women abandoning hoopskirts, and assorted black sheep of respectable families have all sought refuge and inspiration there. This spectacular landscape has always offered a sense of freedom from crowds and conformity--a world, as Frederic Remington described it, "beyond derby hats and mortgages bearing eight percent." Gary Ferguson spins magnificent tales about the vivid characters who have peopled this majestic region, from the original Indian inhabitants and their interactions with European explorers, to the delirious victims of gold rush fever, to hippies in the Sixties, to today's adventure travelers in high-tech outerwear toting satellite phones into the wild. Throughout, he explores the ebbs and flows of America's attitude toward the vast expanses that embody our sense of freedom.
Blackfeet Tales of Glacier National Park
by James Willard Schultz
The author writes a series of diary entries as his Blackfoot friends tell stories in the lodge or around the fire at the end of the day. He has managed to keep the compelling style of his original material, told by talented story tellers. The stories run the gamut from tribal history to legend and myth and convey something of Blackfoot culture, daily life, and beliefs.





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