Glacier National Park 2023: Complete Guide - GTSR, Trails, Lodging, Vehicle Reservation, Wildlife

This is the essential guide to those planning a trip to my favorite National Park or for those who prefer virtual travel. The Park is crowded and National Park Service is taking steps to reduce overcrowding to improve the experience for those lucky enough to visit and obtain the necessary permits and reservations to see this amazing place (sadly these steps are needed). This year, many will not be able to drive the Sun Road or visit an area away from where they are staying because you now need a reservation to enter each area of the Park. These are very hard to get. I show you how to try to get one of these reservations.

This video shows how beautiful all the activity areas are to help you choose where to go and also to show you what you missed if you can't a reservation ticket to see it in person.

Previous versions have over 2 million views. This update is even better.

With more beautiful footage and more trails.

Plus, useful info to help you navigate post crowds and the Park's new Vehicle Reservation Ticket system which has been expended. You now need a separate Vehicle Reservation to drive into each area of the park and you need a different Reservation for each area.

There's also info about the new Federal Regulation that requires anyone posting video to Social Media requires a $225 Filming Permit.

Horse Trail Rides

Boat, Red bus tours

Hiker Shuttle

00:00 Intro
2:50 Overview of Park hiking areas
4:51 Going to the Sun Road and nearby short trails
31:37 Guide to an easy hike Bullhead Lake in Many Glacier
37:20 Grinnell Glacier Trail (my favorite trail)
48:11 Magnificent Highline Trail & Swiftcurrent Pass (moderate but long)
1:04:09 Iceberg Lake hike- with a bear encounter- (moderate)
1:10:43 Hike to Ptarmigan Lake (hard) changing weather- it sleeted!
1:19:13 Piegan Pass & Siyeh Pass (moderate & hard-ish)
1:23:00 Tour all the Lodging options in the park- and some outside it because its so hard to get a room in the park these days
1:50:26 North Fork trails and Polebridge
1:55:55 Canada's Waterton Lakes National Park and the Crypt Lake Trail
2:00:18 Melting Glaciers