West Glacier, Montana West Glacier, Montana Sign for West Glacier on US Route 2 Sign for West Glacier on US Route 2 West Glacier is positioned in Montana West Glacier - West Glacier West Glacier is an unincorporated improve and census-designated place (CDP) in easterly Flathead County, Montana, United States.
As of the 2010 census it had a populace of 227. The town is at the west entrance to Glacier National Park and is positioned on U.S.
The command posts complex for Glacier National Park is positioned nearby. West Glacier's former Great Northern Railway station, now used by Amtrak Remote and almost inaccessible, the West Glacier region drew only limited consideration by white pioneer until the chief line of the Great Northern Railway (GNR) reached the northern Rocky Mountains in 1890.
The barns established a station titled "Belton" at the current West Glacier site, and a small improve slowly began to precarious in the area.
The Swiss-style Belton Chalets in West Glacier, originally assembled in 1910, was the first Great Northern Railway hotel at Glacier National Park and would welcome guests arriving by train to the park, before they would travel into the park's back-country chalets and tent camps.
By the early twentieth century a small number of tourists had begun to visit the spectacular mountain landscapes east and north of Belton, and in 1910 that region was set aside as Glacier National Park. As the stockyards station nearest the area, Belton became a major gateway to Glacier, and the park command posts was established there. Highway 2 was instead of eastward from Belton over Marias Pass in 1930, and the Going-to-the-Sun Road was instead of athwart Glacier Park in 1932. In 1938, a number of tourist-oriented businesses were constructed at the end of the Going-to-the-Sun Road in Belton, forming the core of a new commercial precinct for the town.
The town of Belton was retitled "West Glacier" in 1949, to better reflect its geographic locale and make it more identifiable to tourists, although the barns station and chalet complex retained the Belton name.
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Enumeration Summary File 1 (G001), West Glacier CDP, Montana".
"Belton Chalet - West Glacier".
"Glacier National Park -- History and Culture".
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