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Glacier National Park is located in Northwestern Montana, where the American and Canadian Rockies meet.
The Park, established as a National Park by President William Howard Taft on May 11, 1910, is managed by the National Park Service with its park headquarters is in West Glacier, Montana. Glacier National Park averages slightly less than 2 million visitors annually but few stray far from main roads and hotels.
The Park contains a dozen large lakes and several hundred smaller ones. Lake McDonald, on the western side of the park is the longest, largest and and deepest. The parks namesakes, the huge glaciers of the last ice age, have largely disappeared over the last several thousand years.
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