Glacier Park Planning Season

Planning a visit to Glacier National Park this summer? Now's the time to make your reservations, as accommodations are limited and will soon be filling up for peak season over the next few weeks.

I wanted to take this opportunity to remind readers that if you're planning a trip to Glacier this summer, please take a moment to check out the listings on our lodging and accommodations page on HikinginGlacier.com. Our website offers a wide variety of overnight accommodations that offer a wide variety of amenities in the Glacier Park area.

We also offer several other tools and information resources that can be helpful as you plan your vacation. Trying to figure out where to hike can be challenging, especially if you're unfamiliar with the park. As a starting point you can check our list of the Top 10 Hikes in Glacier National Park, or the Best Easy Hikes in the park.

If you're looking for other activities besides hiking, check out our Things To Do page.

Please know that by supporting one of our advertisers you help to support HikinginGlacier.com.

Finally, if you know of anyone planning a trip to Glacier this year, we would really appreciate if you could forward this link onto them as well.

Thank you very much!


Jeff
Hiking Glacier National Park

Yellowstone Seeks Input on Old Faithful Visitor Lodging Improvement Plan

Yellowstone National Park is seeking ways to restore visitor lodging while accommodating permanent and seasonal lodging for park concessioner employees in the Old Faithful area.

The National Park Service is considering a plan to improve visitor experience and employee housing in one of Yellowstone's most visited areas, while preserving the historic character of the area.

In considering a reasonable range of alternatives, at least one alternative allows existing Old Faithful Lodge cabin units that currently house park concessioner staff to be made available for overnight visitor use. The units are some of the most affordable lodging in the park. That alternative would also call for the construction of a new 77-room dormitory in the Old Faithful administrative area to house up to 144 employees displaced by the change. The 28 multiplex cabins consisting of 67 units accommodates approximately 140 overnight visitors.

The first step in preparing a plan and Environmental Assessment is to ask the public to help identify issues or concerns that the park staff should consider.

A scoping newsletter with a more detailed overview of the plan, along with instructions on how to submit comments can be found online at the National Park Service's Planning, Environment and Public Comment (PEPC) website.

Suggestions and concerns may be submitted through the website, in person or by mail, and must be received or postmarked by midnight MST, December 20, 2011. Comments will not be accepted by phone, fax, or e-mail, and submitted responses may be made publicly available at any time.



Jeff
Hiking in Glacier.com