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A Message from the Superintendent National Park Service Glacier National Park U.S. Department of the Interior Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park Newsletter #3 Spring 2015 GOING-TO-THE-SUN ROAD CORRIDOR Management Plan Newsletter Preliminary Alternatives A Message from the Superintendent Dear Friends, We have not yet selected a preferred alternative, I am pleased to present the third newsletter for nor completed the environmental analysis. That the Going-to-the-Sun Road (GTSR) Corridor will be in the Draft Plan EIS. We anticipate it Management Plan project. Newsletter three will be available for review and comment in fall, presents five preliminary alternatives for your 2015. Public meetings will be held in the fall early review. They outline various responses that after the Draft Plan and EIS are released. park management could take to address issues As we move forward in this process, please continue that include congestion, parking shortages, and to be involved and share your thoughts and ideas resource impacts along the GTSR, and prepare for about management of the GTSR corridor. Thank changes in visitation, National Park Service (NPS) you for your participation and interest to date. Your transportation, climate change, and funding. All comments received during scoping were extremely the alternatives continue to allow private vehicles valuable and instrumental in helping the planning team to drive the GTSR, and no changes are proposed develop this range of preliminary alternatives. I look to the operation of the Red Buses or Sun Tours. forward to hearing more of your thoughts and ideas. The process to develop these alternatives included Sincerely, identifying goals, collecting data, review of public Jeff Mow comments, and identifying thresholds that would Superintendent trigger mitigation actions by park management. I invite you to review and comment on these INSIDE- preliminary alternatives. Your comments Why This Plan is Needed 21 will be used to inform further development, Vision and Goals 4 modification and analysis of these preliminary Development of Preliminary Alternatives 5 alternatives for the Draft Plan and Environmental Draft Preliminary Alternatives 1-5 6 Impact Statement (EIS). In this newsletter you Actions Common to All Alternatives 8 will find a number of ways to contact us. Update on Visitor & Transportation Research 8 What Happens Next? 11 Going-to-the-Sun Road Corridor Management Plan and Environmental Impact Statement Newsletter Glacier National Park Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park GOING-TO-THE-SUN ROAD CORRIDOR Management Plan and Environmental Impact Statement Newsletter WHY does the Going-to-the-Sun Road corridor need a management Plan? Logan Pass East & West of Logan Pass Lunch Creek • Park visitation is increasing and trends • Transit hub and transfer point • Visitors park elsewhere and walk along the road • Social trails (undesignated) indicate it is likely to continue to • Limited parking up to Logan Pass, which creates safety concerns increase. • Pedestrian conflicts • No restrooms nearby • Increased use of trails and overlooks, including increased • Resource damage from human waste along • Visitation increases have already and off-trail, backcountry hiking popular trails and in the backcountry will likely continue to add stress to • New trails being created by increased, dispersed use Siyeh Bend existing facility infrastructure (parking • Concerns about increased human encounters with wildlife • Limited parking • Human waste issues and restrooms) and increase traffic • Congestion congestion on the road. The Loop Granite Park • The number of hikers has significantly Granite Park Chalet increased on some of the popular trails • Increased use of trails and facilities The Loop Highline • Limited parking and safety concerns accessing trails Flattop Mountain in the Going-to-the-Sun Road (GTSR) Saint Mary Visitor Center • Tight shuttle circulation Saint Mary corridor by as much as 250% since 1988. Logan Pass • Many hikers park here all day, reducing the number Big Bend Visitor Center Entrance Station This increase has resulted in crowding of spaces available for short-term parking and multiple types of resource impacts. Piegan Pass Rose Creek Otokomi Lake • Popular areas, such as the Avalanche Siyeh Pass Beaver Pond Trail McDonald Creek Divide Creek Siyeh Goat Lake Creek area on the west side of the park, • Increasing human presence Logan Pass Rising Sun Bend Sunrift East Entrance Station Red Eagle and the Logan Pass area, continue to be may disturb Harlequin ducks Hidden Lake Gorge • Long wait times for visitors Avalanche Avalanche Lake congested, resulting in safety issues and entering park during peak Gunsight St Mary Lake Sun Point resource impacts. Pass times St Mary West Lakes Florence Falls Mary Baker Falls • The shuttle system, launched in 2007, Triple Divide Avalanche Lake Twin Lakes was intended to reduce congestion • Congestion BLACKFEET INDIAN Feather Woman Gunsight Pass along the GTSR, at parking areas, and • Limited parking Lake Jackson Glacier RESERVATION at pullouts. However, the road is still • Pedestrian conflicts Lake McDonald Lodge Mount Brown Snyder Lake Howe Lake congested and the parking lots and • Transit transfer point Gunsight Pass Lincoln Lake Sperry • Terminus for large vehicles Fish Lake Chalet Medicine Owl pullouts are at capacity during peak St. Mary Falls Lake Sunrift Gorge visitation season. • Limited parking • Limited parking • Congestion Apgar Visitor Center McDonald Lake • Visitors park along the road and Transit Center • Pedestrian conflicts • Pedestrian/vehicle conflicts • Increased use of existing trails such as • Transit delays Snyder Ridge • Transition to visitor center St. Mary & Virginia falls • Limited parking • Increased number of social Apgar (undesignated) trails Apgar Visitor Center Apgar Lookout Entrance Station Glacier National Park National Park Service Snyder Ridge General Transportation & Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park U.S. Department of the Interior West Entrance Station West Old Flathead River RS Visitor Use Issues (during peak use) • Long wait times for visitors Transit Staging/Transfer Paved Road Glacier • General traffic and parking congestion entering park during peak times • Increased conflicts and safety concerns for cyclists Transit Stop Unpaved Road and pedestrians Visitor Center Day-Use Zone (GMP) • Poor wayfinding and orientation for visitors Entrance Station • General safety concerns GMP Management Area Poor Conditions Worse Rivers / Creeks Glacier National Park Conditions Trail During peak times & peak season (end of June to end of August), certain areas in the corridor become Going-to-the-Sun Road REVISED APRIL 2015 N 0 1 2 3mi GOING-TO-THE-SUN ROAD CORRIDOR MANAGEMENT PLAN HOT SPOTS 2 http://parkplanning.nps.gov/glac 3 Glacier National Park Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park GOING-TO-THE-SUN ROAD CORRIDOR Management Plan and Environmental Impact Statement Newsletter WHAT are the vision and goals of the plan? Development of Preliminary Alternatives The Going-to-the-Sun Road corridor will be managed to provide all visitors with an opportunity The National Park Service is parking, to increasing the shuttle to experience the scenic majesty and historic character of the park through a wide range of visitor required to examine a full range system, to removing the shuttle of reasonable alternatives when system and implementing a activities, services, and facilities. The cultural significance and traditional use of the Going-to-the-Sun preparing an environmental impact reservation and/or timed entry Road will be emphasized. The project’s vision and four goals outline the intent of the plan. statement. The preliminary system during peak season. alternatives propose different ways Alternative 5 describes a flexible to meet the purpose and need and management approach to allow goals for the plan, while minimizing Goals the park to be able to respond to Vision impacts to park resources. Some future changes in transportation, Goal 1: Manage transportation and trails in the meet these goals better than An integrated, sustainable, and flexible visitation, economics, funding and others. Some of system of transportation and visitor use corridor using adaptable, responsible climate climate (referred to as these preliminary friendly strategies. Reasonable change drivers). Scenario management strategies for the Going-to-the- alternatives may planning (a process Sun Road corridor will focus on protecting and Goal 2: Provide for visitor enjoyment while eventually be alternatives must also used by industry) was determined to not be be economically and minimizing impacts to resources, provide for managing for appropriate levels and types of modified and used to reasonable alternatives, visitor enjoyment, and leverage partnerships visitor use. technically feasible explore three possible and therefore may not that help the park and surrounding region and show evidence of futures, anticipate Goal 3: Protect natural resources conditions, be fully developed trends, consider anticipate and respond to climate change and and analyzed. These common sense. processes and values. risk, and brainstorm other emerging challenges and opportunities. will be described ideas for proactive responses to Goal 4: Protect cultural and historic resources. as considered but dismissed. future conditions on the GTSR economics, climate change, and Reasonable alternatives must corridor. Alternative 5 describes NPS funding availability. Triggers also be economically and this adaptive approach. Change
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