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 in 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 in 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 at 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 / 2103 km
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Total lenght of perennial streams: 1514 miles / 2436.5 km
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Total miles of streams inside the park: 2,865 miles / 4,610 km
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Longest stream: Upper McDonald Creek at 25.8 miles / 41.5 km
Land
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Acreage: 1,012,837
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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 / 33.7 km
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Shared with British Columbia: 31 miles / 50 km
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Shared with U.S. Forest Service: 130 miles / 209 km
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Acres of defacto wilderness: 963,155, or 1,489.3 sq. miles / 3,857 sq. km
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Elevation at Logan Pass: 6,646 feet / 2,025 m
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Number of mountains: 175
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Highest mountain: Mt. Cleveland at 10,448 ft / 3,190 m
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Largest glacier: Harrison Glacier at 1,661,456.75 sq. meters
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: 158; total length - 745.9 miles
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Miles of Continental Divide Trail in Glacier: 110
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Number backcountry campgrounds: 65, with 208 sites
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Paved bicycle path: 2 miles (3.2 km) between Apgar and West Glacier/HQ
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Number designated picnic areas: 8, with 175 sites
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 mammals: 71
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Number of species of birds: 276 documented
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Number of species of plants: 1,132 vascular and 858 non-vascular
Visitation
For more visit the NPS Visitor Use Statistics page.
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10-Year
Increments
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Increase
Decrease
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Annual
Visitation
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Increase
Decrease
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Visitation 1911
4,000
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Visitation 2010
2,200,048
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+ 8%
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Visitation 1920
22,449
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+ 461%
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Visitation 2011
1,853,564
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- 16%
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Visitation 1930
73,776
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+ 229%
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Visitation 2012
2,162,035
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+ 15%
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Visitation 1940
177,307
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+ 140%
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Visitation 2013
2,190,374
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+ 1%
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Visitation 1950
482,298
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+ 174%
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Visitation 2014
2,338,528
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+ 7%
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Visitation 1960
724,500
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+ 49%
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Visitation 2015
2,366,056
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- 1%
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Visitation 1970
1,241,600
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+ 71%
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Visitation 2016
2,946,681
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+ 24%
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Visitation 1980
1,474,578
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+ 19%
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Visitation 2017
3,305,512
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+ 12%
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Visitation 1990
1,986,737
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+ 35%
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Visitation 2018
2,965,309
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- 10% |
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Visitation 2000
1,728,693
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- 13%
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Visitation 2019
3,049,839
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+ 3% |
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Visitation 2010
2,200,048
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+ 27%
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