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Overview
About Two Dog Flats
Why stop
- Open prairie meets the mountain skyline
Heads up
- Wildlife sightings are never assured
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 Two Dog Flats, 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.
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Two Dog Flats0:00 / 0:19
“Up ahead is Two Dog Flats, where open prairie meets the mountain forest. It’s worth a roadside pause to scan the meadows: coyotes and badgers hunt ground squirrels here, and hawks look for smaller rodents.”
Plays as you drive up to Two Dog Flats in the Parkwolf Glacier Tour Guide.
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- 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 Two Dog Flats
An east-side prairie stopTwo Dog Flats is a named wildlife-viewing stop on Glacier’s eastern edge, where open prairie…
Two Dog Flats is a named wildlife-viewing stop on Glacier’s eastern edge, where open prairie meets the mountains. Stop for the broad landscape and a chance to scan for wildlife; this is a roadside viewing stop.
Go early for wildlifeEarly morning is the park’s suggested time to look for animals.
Early morning is the park’s suggested time to look for animals. Sightings aren’t assured, so come for the prairie-and-mountain setting too. Auto parking serves the stop, and there’s a scenic viewing spot.
A wide frame across the flatsThe grassland lies below East Flattop, Singleshot and Otokomi.
The grassland lies below East Flattop, Singleshot and Otokomi. For a photo, use the grasses as foreground and the peaks behind them; the roadside view also opens toward St. Mary Lake. Sunrise suits the wide view, with wildflowers in early summer and aspen color in autumn.
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.
