Park overview · GLAC

Glacier.

Glacier National Park — National Park in MT.

By Nicholas Major · Last updated

Glacier National Park is a U.S. National Park Service unit in MT (NPS unit code GLAC), straddling the Continental Divide along the U.S.-Canada border and built around the Going-to-the-Sun Road traverse over Logan Pass. The park recorded 3,136,557 recreation visits in 2025 and runs a 5-year mean of 3,053,808 annual visits. The busiest month is July and the quietest is February — winter visits run at roughly 2% of July's peak because Going-to-the-Sun, Many Glacier, and Two Medicine all close to vehicles for most of the year. This page is the navigation anchor for Glacier coverage on this site: the best-time-to-visit pillar covers month-by-month crowd, weather, and access including the Going-to-the-Sun vehicle-reservation rules and the late-September larch turn; the visitation page covers the long-run annual chart through the 2017 record and the 2020 pandemic trough.

Glacier on this site.

Glacier National Park is a U.S. National Park Service unit designated as a National Park, located in MT (NPS unit code GLAC). For when to go, what each month looks like, and the access calendar, follow the best-time-to-visit page. For the long-run visitation history and the disruption events that shaped recent years, follow the visitation page.

Park data card

FieldValue
DesignationNational Park
StateMT
NPS unit codeGLAC
Latest annual visits (2025)3,136,557
5-year mean annual visits3,053,808
Busiest month (5-yr mean)July
Quietest month (5-yr mean)February

Methodology

Identity, designation, and coordinates come from the official NPS unit page. Annual recreation visits, busiest month, and quietest month are computed from the NPS Visitor Use Statistics Data Package, 2025 on NPS IRMA Stats. This hub does not duplicate the per-month editorial that lives on the best-time page or the year-by-year chart that lives on the visitation page — follow those links for the deep view. Independent site, not affiliated with the National Park Service.

Independence

Independent site. Not affiliated with or endorsed by the National Park Service. Data comes from the official NPS Visitor Use Statistics Data Package, 2025; editorial analysis is ours. The NPS Arrowhead and other NPS marks are not used.

Last updated · 2026-05-20