Situated in northwestern Montana, Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park World Heritage Site contains 2,000 square miles of some of the most beautiful and dramatic natural scenery on the continent. A bill designating Glacier National Park was signed by President Taft on May 11, 1910. The park fell to the management of the National Park Service upon the agency’s inception in 1916, and it is still managed by the U.S. National Park Service. In 1932, Canada and the United States declared Waterton Lakes National Park and neighboring Glacier National Park the world’s first International Peace Park. While administered as two separate entities, the park’s two sections cooperate in wildlife management, scientific research and some visitors services.
