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History
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Established as a park on May 11, 1910.
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Established as Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park in 1932.
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Going- to- the-Sun Road completed in 1932.
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Established as an International Biosphere Reserve, 1974.
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Waterton Lakes National Park established in 1895.
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Established as Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park World Heritage Site, 1995.
Water
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Number of named lakes: 131
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Number of unnamed lakes: 631
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Total number of lakes: 762
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Acres of named lakes: 25,622
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Largest lake: Lake McDonald (9.4 miles long; 1.5 miles wide; 464 feet deep; 6,823 acres)
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Number of streams: 563
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Total length of intermittent streams: 1307 miles
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Total lenght of perennial streams: 1514 miles
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Total miles of streams inside the park: 2,865 miles
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Longest stream: Upper McDonald Creek (25.8 miles)
Land
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Acreage: 1,013,594 acres...500+ in private ownership
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Square miles: 1,583
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Miles of exterior boundary: 205
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Shared with Waterton National Park: 21 miles
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Shared with British Columbia: 31 miles
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Shared with U.S. Forest Service: 130 miles
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Acres of defacto wilderness: 963,155...or 1,489.3 sq. miles
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Acreage in Hudson Bay District:
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Belly River: 162,766
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Many Glacier: 211,610
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St. Mary: 94,463
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Two Medicine: 72,320
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Areage in West Lakes District:
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North Fork: 240,234
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Lake McDonald: 178,890
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Walton: 195,612
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Elevation at Logan Pass: 6,646 feet
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Number of mountains: 175
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Highest mountain: 10,448 ft...Mt. Cleveland
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Number of glaciers: 26 named; all shrinking in size
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Largest glacier: Blackfoot Glacier - .7 sq. miles
Facilities
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Number Class A campgrounds: 8, with 943 sites
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Number Class B campgrounds: 5, with 61 sites
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Number of trails: 151; total length - 745.6 miles
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Miles of Continental Divide Trail in Glacier: 110
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Wheelchair accessible walkways and corduroy
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Trail of the Cedars (.3 mile...1,584 feet)
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Logan Pass Boardwalk (2,300 feet)
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Oberlin Bend Overlook
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Running Eagle Nature Trail
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Number backcountry campgrounds: 65, with 208 sites
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Miles paved bicycle path: 2 miles...Apgar to West Glacier/HQ
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Number designated picnic areas: 8...with 175 sites
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Number of (‘snowshoe’) patrol cabins: 30
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Number of visitor contact stations: 4
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Number of boat access points: 6
Plants and Animals
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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.)
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Number of species of animals: 57...from mice to moose
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Number of species of birds: 210 documented
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Number of species of plants: 1,132 vascular and 858 non-vascular
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Visitation
10-Year
Increments |
Increase
Decrease |
Annual
Visitation |
Increase
Decrease |
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Visitation 1911
4000 |
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Visitation 2000
1,728,693 |
+3 % |
Visitation 1920
22,449 |
+461% |
Visitation 2001
1,680,614
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-3 % |
Visitation 1930
73,776 |
+229 % |
Visitation 2002
1,905,689
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+13 % |
Visitation 1940
177,307 |
+140 % |
Visitation 2003
1,664,046
Big Fire Season |
-13 % |
Visitation 1950
482,298 |
+174 % |
Visitation 2004
2,033,933 |
+22 % |
Visitation 1960
724,500 |
+ 49 % |
Visitation 2005
1,925,101 |
-5 % |
Visitation 1970
1,241,600 |
+ 71 % |
Visitation 2006
1,964,399 |
+2 % |
Visitation 1980
1,474,578 |
+ 19 % |
Visitation 2007
2,083,329
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+6 % |
Visitation 1990
1,986,737 |
+ 35 %
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Visitation 2000
1,728,693 |
+ 3 % |
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