2008 Guild newsroom retiree Charles Montague,
known by his memos as Chasm, corrects a previous BJ Alums posting that Glacier
National Park is in the U.S. AND Canada.
Chasm’s email:
Glacier is a U.S. National Park.
It is only in Montana.
Abutting it to the north is Canada's
Waterton Lakes National Park, which straddles the Alberta-BC boundary.
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| Charles Montague |
It is a short drive from East
Glacier Park Village north through customs to the town of Waterton Village,
which is contained in the Canadian park.
Many people take it to have
high tea at the Prince of Wales Hotel and enjoy the view south of the main
Waterton Lake, which is just as knock your socks off as the lakes in Glacier.
Backpacking hikers can take a
boat to the southern shore of the lake and the trek 3 days south through
Waterton, across the border and back into Montana.
You can take the train practically
to the front door of Glacier Park Lodge because the Great Northern Railroad
built the place in the early 1900s to get folks to ride the train to the park.
Chasm
In Googling for more information, you get this
clarification:
The park is bordered on
the north by Waterton Lakes National Park in Alberta, and the Flathead
Provincial Forest and Akamina-Kishinena Provincial
Park in British Columbia. To
the west, the north fork of the Flathead River forms the western boundary, while its middle
fork is part of the southern boundary. The Blackfeet Indian Reservation
provides most of the eastern boundary, and the Lewis and Clark and
the Flathead National Forests
form the southern and western boundary.
Chasm apparently has recovered sufficiently from his May 2012 heart attack,
which required four stents, to email his Getting It Straight. Great! Thanks for
the correction, Chasm.
To read the original posting involving Glacier National Park, where former
BJ married couple Ann Sheldon Mezger and Roger Mezger plan to visit via train
this summer, click on http://bjretirees.blogspot.com/search?q=BJ+reunion+at+Akron+Arts+Expo+
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