East Glacier Park station is a train station in East Glacier Park Village, Montana. It is a seasonal stop for Amtrak's Empire Builder line, open from April to October. It serves mostly visitors to Glacier National Park. It functions as an alternate to Browning station on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, which opens from October to April.
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 East Glacier Park station building | |||||||||||||
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| Location | 400 Hwy 49 North East Glacier Park Village, Montana United States | ||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 48°26′38″N 113°13′07″W / 48.4439°N 113.2185°W | ||||||||||||
| Owned by | BNSF Railway | ||||||||||||
| Line(s) | BNSF Hi Line Subdivision | ||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 side platform | ||||||||||||
| Tracks | 3 | ||||||||||||
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| Parking | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||||
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| Status | Open seasonally (April–October); Station building with waiting room | ||||||||||||
| Station code | Amtrak: GPK | ||||||||||||
| History | |||||||||||||
| Opened | 1913 | ||||||||||||
| Previous names | Glacier Park | ||||||||||||
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| FY 2023 | 9,545[1] (Amtrak) | ||||||||||||
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The historic Glacier Park Lodge was built in 1913 by the Great Northern Railway. The hotel is within a block's distance from the station, and thus arriving passengers can walk to the Glacier Park Hotel if they wish, but typically a van from the hotel meets the train and will carry passengers and their luggage to the hotel. The station, platform, and parking are owned by BNSF Railway.[2][3] This station operates during the summer only.
The station has a sign that reads Glacier Park (its historic former name), but the current "East Glacier Park" name is used on Amtrak schedules and by train personnel when making the onboard arrival announcement.
Notes and references
edit- ^ "Amtrak Fact Sheet, Fiscal Year 2023: State of Montana" (PDF). Amtrak. March 2024. Retrieved June 29, 2024.
- ^ "Amtrak - Great American Stations". Amtrak. Retrieved April 23, 2009.
- ^ Grau, Kara; Bruns-Dubois, Melissa; Nickerson, Norma P. (December 2006). "The Economic Review of the Travel Industry in Montana" (PDF). University of Montana. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 30, 2013. Retrieved February 1, 2007.
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