Glacier, Yellowstone Set New Records for Visitors

There are still three months to go, but Glacier National Park has already set a new all-time record for park visits, topping the previous record that's more than three decades old.

Glacier has been on a near-record pace all year despite a slow start to the summer and a few snowy spells that closed the popular Going-to-the-Sun Road.

According to the latest figures released by the National Park Service on Thursday, Glacier has seen more than 2.2 million recreation visitors pass through the gates through Sept. 30th. The actual number is 2,238,761.

That's not only almost 39,000 more people than the most recent near-record year during the park's centennial in 2010, it also shatters Glacier's previous all-time record of 2,203,847 visitors back in the 1983.

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