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Overview
About St. Mary Entrance Station
Why stop
- A self-registration area keeps entry possible when the booth is unstaffed.
Heads up
- There’s no reason to linger after admission is handled.
Map
Where it is
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Full mapPlan your stop
Before you go
The highest, rockiest slopes around here are a summer buffet for grizzly bears.
Glacier Tour Guide
Your drive to St. Mary Entrance Station, narrated.
Parkwolf is a GPS audio tour guide for Glacier National Park. As you drive, it chimes in with what’s ahead: hidden gems, upcoming stops, history, geology, and wildlife, right through your car’s speakers.
See the Glacier audio tourRecorded for this area
St. Mary Visitor Center0:00 / 0:34
“You’re approaching St. Mary Visitor Center, just inside the east entrance. Stop here if you want help choosing walks or understanding what you’ll see along the road.”
Plays near St. Mary Entrance Station in the Parkwolf Glacier Tour Guide.
More stories near here in the app
- One Root System, Many Trunks
- The Boat That Arrived by Road
- Three Hundred Miles in the Saddle
- Two Dog Flats
- 204 audio storiesacross Glacier’s roads, triggered by GPS as you drive
- Wildlife heatmapsfor Grizzly Bear, Wolverine, Mountain Goat, and 13 more
- Works offlinemaps, 157 trails, 91 places, and audio download before you lose signal
- CarPlay readysimple controls built for the drive
“Our first time to glacier and we used the audio portion for Going to the Sun Road. Wonderful information with perfect advice of what to see and do along the road.”
Guide
More about St. Mary Entrance Station
Handle admission on the way inSt.
St. Mary Entrance Station is the vehicle checkpoint at Glacier’s east entrance, where drivers enter before continuing west on Going-to-the-Sun Road. It’s a quick, practical stop rather than a sightseeing destination. The nearby St. Mary Visitor Center is a separate building.
If the booth is unstaffedWhen the station is unstaffed, its self-registration area sells seven-day passes.
When the station is unstaffed, its self-registration area sells seven-day passes.
Made taller for oversized vehiclesThe current station was constructed in 2017, then modified in 2018 to raise its building height…
The current station was constructed in 2017, then modified in 2018 to raise its building height for oversized vehicles. It’s a small but useful bit of design history at this practical gateway.
Wildlife
Wildlife in Glacier
404 sightingsGrizzly BearMost seen around 6 AMSighting map
11 sightingsWolverineMost seen around 8 PMSighting map
1,173 sightingsMountain GoatMost seen around 6 AMSighting map
1,000 sightingsBighorn SheepMost seen around 6 AMSighting map
395 sightingsMooseMost seen around 6 AMSighting map
506 sightingsBlack BearMost seen around 8 PMSighting mapSighting maps show where each species has been reported across Glacier. Wildlife moves, so no sighting is guaranteed.
