Glacier National Park

Glacier National Park, established in 1910 along the Continental Divide in northwestern Montana, protects a magnificent stretch of the northern Rockies often called the "Crown of the Continent." Glaciers carved its sharp peaks, U-shaped valleys, and more than 700 lakes, leaving a landscape of knife-edged ridges and hanging valleys that drains to three different oceans from a single mountain — the rare triple-divide point.

The park's Going-to-the-Sun Road, an engineering marvel, climbs over the divide at Logan Pass through some of the most spectacular alpine scenery accessible by car, drawing most of the park's three million-plus yearly visitors. The glaciers that named the park are now shrinking fast with the warming climate, expected to largely vanish within decades. Grizzly bears, mountain goats, and bighorn sheep roam its high country.

• Montana
  Big Sky Country, where the plains meet the Rockies located in
• The Rocky Mountains
  The backbone of western North America part of