A Lodge That Resembles an Indoor Forest

In this installment of ‘History Off the Beaten Path,’ we visit Montana’s Glacier Park Lodge, an architectural marvel of beauty and ingenuity.
A Lodge That Resembles an Indoor Forest
Glacier Park Lodge evokes the rugged terrain and mountainous beauty of Glacier National Park. Deena Bouknight
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Glacier Park Lodge lies in an area where freezing temperatures and snow can happen year-round. It’s just outside the southeast corner of Montana’s Glacier National Park. The historic accommodations are just inside the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, about 10 miles from a tiny town called Bison, Montana.

Most visitors to Glacier Park Lodge come to visit Glacier National Park. There are no main highways anywhere around this area of Montana—close to the Canadian border. The nearest towns are Whitefish, Montana, with a population a little over 9,000, or Kalispell, population around 28,000. Both are over 90 minutes to the west.

Deena Bouknight
Deena Bouknight
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A 30-plus-year writer-journalist, Deena C. Bouknight works from her Western North Carolina mountain cottage and has contributed articles on food culture, travel, people, and more to local, regional, national, and international publications. She has written three novels, including the only historical fiction about the East Coast’s worst earthquake. Her website is DeenaBouknightWriting.com