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Overview
About West Entrance Station
Why stop
- A distinctive stone-and-log entrance station with a documented CCC history.
Map
Where it is
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Before you go
The highest, rockiest slopes around here are a summer buffet for grizzly bears.
Glacier Tour Guide
Your drive to West 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
How Ice Sharpens a Skyline0:00 / 0:29
“Picture two glaciers carving opposite sides of the same mountain ridge. As they wear away the rock, the crest between them becomes narrow and sharp. Geologists call that ridge an arête. The Garden Wall is one example.”
Plays on the road 0.5 mi from West Entrance Station in the Parkwolf Glacier Tour Guide.
More stories near here in the app
- Belton Chalet and Historic Depot
- Apgar Visitor Center
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- Apgar Village
- 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 West Entrance Station
The park entrance checkpointWest Entrance Station is the vehicle entry and fee checkpoint on Going-to-the-Sun Road at…
West Entrance Station is the vehicle entry and fee checkpoint on Going-to-the-Sun Road at Glacier's west entrance. The entry fee is due even when the booth is unstaffed; follow the posted self-payment instructions. This is a working gate, rather than a separate visitor-center stop.
Built to look like a toll stationCivilian Conservation Corps crews completed the one-story station in August 1941.
Civilian Conservation Corps crews completed the one-story station in August 1941. Its wood frame is faced with native stone, and a broad log-framed gable roof reaches over the vehicle lanes. The rustic design was meant to recall a roadside toll station.
Two lanes under one roofAs traffic grew, two checking cubicles were added beneath the roof's wings in 1963.
As traffic grew, two checking cubicles were added beneath the roof's wings in 1963. They let two lanes pass through at once and made room for larger recreational vehicles. The building still serves as an entrance checkpoint.
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.
