WEST GLACIER – Bit by bit, more and more of Glacier National Park is being opened to visitors. Thursday, the National Park Service opened the Bowman Lake Road in the northwest corner of the park.

Bowman Lake could have been about all yours this week. In the span of 5 miles, only one person was sighted, a happy guy with a small tent at the primitive campground at the upper end of the lake. Not ...

Glacier’s third-largest lake doesn’t get nearly the visitor attention lavished on Lake McDonald or St. Mary Lake. But that’s not for lack of scenery or things to do. A narrow, twisty road leads up ...