History

• Established as a park on May 11, 1910.
• Established as Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park in 1932.
• Going- to- the-Sun Road completed in 1932.
• Established as an International Biosphere Reserve, 1974.
• Waterton Lakes National Park established in 1895.
• Established as Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park World Heritage Site, 1995.

Water

• Number of named lakes: 131
• Number of unnamed lakes: 631
• Total number of lakes: 762
• Acres of named lakes: 25,622
• Largest lake: Lake McDonald (9.4 miles long; 1.5 miles wide; 464 feet deep; 6,823 acres)
• Number of streams: 563
• Total length of intermittent streams: 1307 miles
• Total lenght of perennial streams: 1514 miles
• Total miles of streams inside the park: 2,865 miles
• Longest stream: Upper McDonald Creek (25.8 miles)

Land

• Acreage: 1,013,594 acres...500+ in private ownership
• Square miles: 1,583
• Miles of exterior boundary: 205
• Shared with Waterton National Park: 21 miles
• Shared with British Columbia: 31 miles
• Shared with U.S. Forest Service: 130 miles
• Acres of defacto wilderness: 963,155...or 1,489.3 sq. miles
• Acreage in Hudson Bay District:
• • Belly River: 162,766
  • Many Glacier: 211,610
  • St. Mary: 94,463
  • Two Medicine: 72,320

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• Areage in West Lakes District:
• • North Fork: 240,234
  • Lake McDonald: 178,890
  • Walton: 195,612

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• Elevation at Logan Pass: 6,646 feet
• Number of mountains: 175
• Highest mountain: 10,448 ft...Mt. Cleveland
• Number of glaciers: 26 named; all shrinking in size
• Largest glacier: Blackfoot Glacier - .7 sq. miles

Facilities

• Number Class A campgrounds: 8, with 943 sites
• Number Class B campgrounds: 5, with 61 sites
• Number of trails: 151; total length - 745.6 miles
• Miles of Continental Divide Trail in Glacier: 110
• Wheelchair accessible walkways and corduroy
• • Trail of the Cedars (.3 mile...1,584 feet)
  • Logan Pass Boardwalk (2,300 feet)
  • Oberlin Bend Overlook
  • Running Eagle Nature Trail

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• Number backcountry campgrounds: 65, with 208 sites
• Miles paved bicycle path: 2 miles...Apgar to West Glacier/HQ
• Number designated picnic areas: 8...with 175 sites
• Number of (‘snowshoe’) patrol cabins: 30
• Number of visitor contact stations: 4
• Number of boat access points: 6

Plants and Animals

• Number of fish species : 24...18 native and 7 non-native (Lake trout are native in the Hudson Bay drainage, but are non-native west of the Divide. They are listed on both the native and non-native lists.)
• Number of species of animals: 57...from mice to moose
• Number of species of birds: 210 documented
• Number of species of plants: 1,132 vascular and 858 non-vascular

Visitation