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Day hikes in Glacier National Park can bring you to some amazing locations if you’re willing to stray 5 or 10 miles from the paved roads. For detailed hiking information, check out Hiking in Glacier, which provides a great catalogue of hiking information for the park.

Glacier National Park is a nature photographer’s paradise. The dramatic, jagged peaks, and harsh topography provide photographic angles and compositions that are limited only by how far you are willing to hike or how high you are willing to climb.

Andrews, Tyndall, and Rowe are all good examples of small cirque glaciers. Valley glaciers are glaciers confined to a valley (usually a former stream valley). There are no valley glaciers in RMNP today, but 15,000 years ago many of the valleys in the park were filled with ice.

Rowe Glacier Nestled near the top of Hagues Peak in Rocky Mountain National Park, Rowe Glacier was the first glacier to be identified as a true glacier in Colorado. It is also interesting to note that Rowe Glacier is the source of the North Fork of the Big Thompson River.