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World Famous Hotel at Grand Canyon, Yellowstone National Park 



continental train. Representatives of tlie various companies holding camping, trans- 

 portation and hotel concessions in the park may be met on the train and all arrange- 

 ments made for necessary accommodations. The cost of the park trip is usually be- 

 tween $35 and $60, depending upon the character of the accommodation desired. The 

 season is from June 15 to September 15 each year. 



Glacier National Park is the newest of the great national playgrounds, Iiaving 

 been created by act of congress in February, 1910, and yet so well and favorably known 

 have its attractions become that between June 1 and October 15, 1914, 12,168 visitors 

 registered at its two entrances, Belton and Glacier Park station. The park is located 

 in northwestern Montana and comprises an area of 1,500 square miles. It is bounded 

 on the north by the Canadian border, on the south by the main line of the Great 

 Northern railway, on the west by the north fork of the Flathead river and on the 

 east by the Blackfeet Indian reservation. The main range of the Rocky Mountains 

 extends from north to south throughout the center of the park, and within this 

 region is found a variety of mountain scenery unsurpassed for beauty and grandeur 

 on this continent, and said by those who have seen both countries to excell the famous 

 Alps of Switzerland. Recently Secretary of the Interior Franklin K. Lane, wrote: 



"The United States contains Switzerland, the Riviera, the fiords of Norway and 

 the Egyptian desert. This is a flamboyant way of saying a simple fact that there is 

 nothing of natural gradeur or beauty which our people cross the water to enjoy, which 

 has not its rival or superior within this country. And in addition our land is rich in 

 canyons, forests and natural wonders, the like of which the Old World does not 

 present. 



"To see the Yellowstone, with its golden canyon and its strange spouting geysers; 

 the emerald lakes of Glacier, gathered in the laps of massive mountains of brilliant 

 red; * =s * — ^q g^g these is to know 'Nature in her supremest moments.'" 



