Hikers head toward Granite Park Chalet in Glacier National Park on the Highline Trail. (Keila Szpaller/The Daily Montanan)

Glacier National Park will end its ticketed vehicle entry program in 2026, the Daily Inter Lake reported this week.

At a Columbia Falls Chamber of Commerce meeting on Dec. 9, Glacier Superintendent Dave Roemer said the pilot program implemented in 2021 had broken up midday traffic through the park, but it created incentives for people to drive in the dark to Logan Pass, the Inter Lake said.

With the program rescinded, Roemer said he hoped more visitors would drive later in the day when it’s safer, the Inter Lake reported.

In 2025, tickets were required from June 13 to Sept. 28 from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the west side of Going-to-the-Sun Road and the North Fork, accor

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