Glacier National Park
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Glacier National Park
Road:
TransCanada Highway 1 (Golden-Rogers Pass-Revelstoke) passes through Glacier National Park and skirts the edge of Mount Revelstoke National Park.
Glacier National Park, very scenic and a great favorite with climbers, and Mount Revelstoke National Park, a few miles further west, lie in one of Canada's most inhospitable mountainous regions, the almost inaccessible northern Selkirk Range of the Columbia Mountains. These run parallel to the Rockies, with lots of jagged peaks, steep descents and narrow valleys cut deep into the rock, to the west of the Rocky Mountain rift valley. The wet west winds from the Pacific result in high levels of precipitation on the western flank of the Columbia Mountains which are over 3,000 m (9846 ft) high. It rains almost every day, even in summer, and snows almost every day in winter - the weather station on Mount Fidelity has in fact measured 23 m (75 ft) of snow in a year.
Road:
TransCanada Highway 1 (Golden-Rogers Pass-Revelstoke) passes through Glacier National Park and skirts the edge of Mount Revelstoke National Park.
Glacier National Park, very scenic and a great favorite with climbers, and Mount Revelstoke National Park, a few miles further west, lie in one of Canada's most inhospitable mountainous regions, the almost inaccessible northern Selkirk Range of the Columbia Mountains. These run parallel to the Rockies, with lots of jagged peaks, steep descents and narrow valleys cut deep into the rock, to the west of the Rocky Mountain rift valley. The wet west winds from the Pacific result in high levels of precipitation on the western flank of the Columbia Mountains which are over 3,000 m (9846 ft) high. It rains almost every day, even in summer, and snows almost every day in winter - the weather station on Mount Fidelity has in fact measured 23 m (75 ft) of snow in a year.
Address:
Mount Revelstoke and Glacier National Parks, Box 350, Revelstoke, BC V0E2S0, Canada
Phone: 1 (250) 837-7500, Fax: 1 (250) 837-7536
Phone: 1 (250) 837-7500, Fax: 1 (250) 837-7536
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