Hungry Horse news. [volume] (Columbia Falls, Mont.) 1948-current, 1955-07-08

The following letter is from How
ard H. Hays, president Of the CIa-
cier Park Transport Co., a longtime
outstanding booster Of Glacier. We
stand corrected on June ~ editori-
al regarding flow Of rail visitors
from Glacier to Banff.
Dear Mel:
AS constant readers, Mr.. Noble
and have noted your editorial in
the Hungry Horse News, June "a,
1855, entitled Train Travellers" The
editorial is concerned with meet
ing of the National Editorial Asso-
citation in Banff in early June, and
quotes two visitors from Texas to
the effect that they tried to secure
rail routing that would include
Glacier National Park and were tsld
that it was not practicable. The edi-
torial calls attention to the fact that
visitors can arrive at Banff by Can
adam Pacific Railway and then take
scenic BUSES up to Jasper National
Park, where connection is made
with the Canadian National Railway.
Your editorial concludes:
MANY visitors from the East who
come to see Glacier travelling by
automobile also take in Banff in
Canada just few hours drive away.
1t is unfortunate that visitors who
travel by train apparently cannot
work in similar pleasant outing"
The only reason the Texas people
were not able to include Glacier
National Park in their railroad Jour-
ney is that the hotel and bus trans
portation facilities in Glacier Ma
tional Park were not open at the
time of this convention. For more
than 20 years railroad routings have
enabled passengers from either east
or west to detrain at Bolton, Mon
tana West Glacier, and take a
tour through Glacier and Waterton
National Parks and go thence to
both Banff and Jasper with return
routings, as the case might be, on
either of the Canadian RAILWAYS. AL
so, the reverse of these tours has
been available whereby the rail pas
engers arrive at Waterton from the
north and tour Glacier National Park
with an exit at Bolton.
Moreover, this routing includes
Yellowstone. Rail passengers can
arrive at Gardiner, Montana, by
rail, tour Yellowstone Park with an
exit at Cody, thence rail transpor.
tation to Bolton, tour Glacier Ma
tional Park and go east on the Great
Northern.
l think you will be interested il
knowing that these railroad tours
which combine several of the ma
tional parks are the rail tours which
have grown the most in popular
favor in recent years. Indeed, it i.
not too much to say that these tour.
are probably the most popular ex
cept for tours through Glacier which
are incidental to a transcontinenta
journey on the Great Northern Rail
way. To illustrate, in 1852, "a pei
cent of all of our rail travel passen
gers took the vacation tour which
combined Glacier with Banff. Las
season, 1854, "a per cent Of all O
our visitors arriving by rail tool
this combination, either northbount
or southbound.
4 From the Pacific Coast rail pas
senger can leave Los Angeles on +;
round-trip ticket going to Seattle
thence to Glacier Park on the Grea
Northern; thence through Glacier
and Waterton and Banff and/or Jas
per with a return routing via either
Canadian National or Canadian Pa
cific to Vancouver; and thence bacl
to Los Angeles.
| We enclose our current Glacier
Waterton circular for railroad pas
sengers and call your attention Il
"Banff Jasper Including Glacier
Circle Tour Railway Tickets" Thu
map shows the routing through Ola
cier National Park and the tour!
designated as Tour No. 3-N'' ant
"Tour No. 3-S.''
Yours truly,
Howard H. Hays