![]() ![]() Howser said he loves the park and enjoys going there, but his 7-year-old daughter has never boated on Two Medicine. Howser noted that recreational boating hasn’t been possible on lakes like Two Medicine for the past few years, because there hasn’t been staff to man aquatic invasive species inspection stations that are mandated by the Park Service. “It isn’t less congested at all,” she claimed. Right now, everyone is rushing to get into the park early in the mornings before they need a reservation, or rushing in the afternoon to get in line. ![]() Rhonda Fitzgerald, Schustrom’s business partner, suggested a timed entry system, where people would be allowed in the park based on the reservation time. Under the block system, reservations sold in in a matter of minutes. Whitefish businessowner Chris Schustrom said it simply didn’t work for people trying to plan a vacation. ![]() Others had issues with the block release system for reservations. With the road opening later, it compresses the visitor season, Brown claimed, making congestion all the worse. It never opened in May and the earlier opening was June 16 in 2016. From 1990 to 2000 it opened three times in late May and the latest opening for that decade was June 23.įrom 2000 to 2010, it opened four times in May and the latest opening was June 28.įrom 2010 to the present, Logan Pass didn’t open until July four times. Looking at past opening dates, from 1980 to 1990, Logan Pass was open by late May four times, and the latest opening was June 18 in that 10-year period. ![]() But even that aside, the road is opening later than ever, noted former state Representative Dee Brown, who also owned a campground in the Canyon for years.īrown has a point. Last year the Road didn’t open until July 13 - tying it for one of the latest openings ever. Perhaps first and foremost was simply getting the Going-to-the-Sun Road fully open up and over Logan Pass earlier. Zinke would eventually like to see the reservation system done away with entirely - replacing it with a shuttle system, and some sort of system that would let visitors know when popular trails were full.īut there were plenty of other ideas suggested by the business leaders who were invited to the discussion. This summer visitors will have to have a reservation from Memorial Day weekend through the second weekend of September from 6 a.m. Zinke said he would like the Park Service to suspend the east side reservation system and rollback the Going-to-the-Sun Road reservation requirement to 1 p.m. Howser, who owns several businesses in East Glacier Park was one of several business owners who expressed frustration at the Park’s reservation system during an invitation-only meeting with Congressman Ryan Zinke at Columbia Falls City Hall last week.ĭuring the meeting the Republican Congressman reiterated earlier criticisms of the reservation system that was expanded this year to include Two Medicine and Many Glacier beginning July 1 and lasting through the second weekend in September. The friend, however, didn’t have any success getting another coveted ticket: This one into Glacier National Park. Mark Howser had a family friend that got a coveted ticket to a Taylor Swift concert. ![]()
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