Glacier Park officially allows e-bikes
CHRIS PETERSON | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 5 years, 8 months AGO
Chris Peterson is the editor of the Hungry Horse News. He covers Columbia Falls, the Canyon, Glacier National Park and the Bob Marshall Wilderness. All told, about 4 million acres of the best parts of the planet. He can be reached at editor@hungryhorsenews.com or 406-892-2151. | September 19, 2019 10:59 AM
The National Park Service today announced it would allow electric bikes in Glacier National Park and other national parks on roads and trails where traditional bikes are allowed.
This means folks will be able to use e-bikes when traveling the Going-to-the-Sun Road and other roads in Glacier National Park. By definition, e-bikes are electric bikes that have a 1 horsepower or less motor and typically don’t go faster than 28 mph with pedal assist. In Glacier, for example, bicycles still have to abide by the speed limit on roads.
Biking the Sun Road when it’s closed to vehicle traffic is a very popular activity in Glacier, particularly in the spring. Now people can legally use e-bikes on the road.
The new directive doesn’t allow e-bikes on trails that don’t already allow bicycles. Nearly every trail in Glacier is closed to bikes, save for the old Flathead Ranger Station Trail which runs along the Middle Fork of the Flathead, the Fish Creek bike path from Fish Creek to Apgar and the bike path from Apgar Village to Apgar Campground.
But bikes are allowed on roads to Bowman and Kintla Lake, the Inside North Fork Road and paved roads, like Many Glacier, Two Medicine and Chief Mountain.
There are also biking restrictions during the summer months when traveling the Sun Road when it’s open to vehicles.
For a complete list of rules and regulations, visit Glacier’s bicycle web page at: https://www.nps.gov/glac/planyourvisit/bicycling.htm
The Park Service opened national parks to e-bikes after a directive from Secretary of Interior David Bernhardt earlier this year.
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