Bozeman Author, Jean Arthur’s New Guidebook: Top Trails: Glacier National Park

New Guide Features Scenic Trails, Cultural History of Glacier National Park

Top Trails: Glacier National Park by Jean Arthur leads visitors to secluded trails and unique settings while providing details of current and past human activity, wildlife movement, wildfire’s importance, and geologic changes that altered the landscape and created America’s 10th national park.

Thursday July 10th at 8am Jean, who will have just returned from her latest visit to Glacier, will join me for a conversation regarding her experience writing the book.

From day hikes to waterfalls to spectacular and remote high mountain cirques, this guidebook offers a thorough description of trail difficulty, unique trailside features, and helpful tips on local camping, lodging, dining and shopping.

The unique approach of Top Trails: Glacier National Park reveals why certain trails wend alongside sensitive meadows or climb above crystalline lakes. The guide also traces outlaws, poachers, and mining ventures that occurred inside the current park boundary.

About the Author

Jean Arthur hiked 400 miles of Glacier’s trails during 2012 and 2013, retracing routes she’s been hiking for 30 years, and spent hours with park historians, Blackfeet Indian guides, and in libraries among historic collections of Glacier’s artifacts. She lives in Bozeman, MT.