The rival of any of the United States' most spectacular national parks, including Yellowstone, Yosemite and the Grand Canyon. Though lesser known, few places on earth are as magnificent or as pristine as Glacier. Renowned for the spectacular Going-to-the-Sun Rd, one of the country's' most stunning drives, historic 'parkitecture' lodges and 740 miles of hiking trails, Glacier accommodates both leisurely travelers and hardcore backcountry adventurers. Protected in 1910 during the first flowering of the American conservationist movement, grizzly bears still roam in abundance and park management has kept the place accessible and authentically wild.

Located on the Crown of the Continent, the glacially carved remnants of an ancient thrust fault have left us a brilliant landscape of towering snowcapped pinnacles laced with plunging waterfalls and glassy turquoise lakes. The mountains are surrounded by dense forests, which host a virtually intact pre-Columbian ecosystem.