Granite Park Chalet is located in the heart of Glacier National Park in the U.S. state

U.S. state

A U.S. state is any one of the 50 federated states of the United States of America that share sovereignty with the federal government. Because of this shared sovereignty, an American is a citizen both of the federal entity and of his or her state of domicile. Four states use the official title of...

 of Montana

Montana

Montana is a state in the Western United States. The western third of Montana contains numerous mountain ranges. Smaller, "island ranges" are found in the central third of the state, for a total of 77 named ranges of the Rocky Mountains. This geographical fact is reflected in the state's name,...

. The chalet was built in 1914 by the Great Northern Railway and is a National Historic Landmark

National Historic Landmark

A National Historic Landmark is a building, site, structure, object, or district, that is officially recognized by the United States government for its historical significance...

 contributing property, being one of five structures in the
Great Northern Railway Buildings

Great Northern Railway Buildings

Great Northern Railway Buildings is a National Historic Landmark that now includes five complexes of buildings in Glacier National Park. The buildings were built by Great Northern Railway....

 district. From Logan Pass

Logan Pass

Logan Pass is located along the Continental Divide in Glacier National Park, in the U.S. state of Montana. It is the highest point on the Going-to-the-Sun Road....

 along the Going-to-the-Sun Road

Going-to-the-Sun Road

Going-to-the-Sun Road is the only road through the heart of Glacier National Park in Montana, USA. It was completed in 1932, and it is the only road that crosses the park, going over the Continental Divide at Logan Pass. A fleet of 1930s red tour buses "jammers", rebuilt in 2001 to run on propane...

, the chalet is a moderate 7.6 miles (12.2 km) hike along the famed Crown of the Continent Highline Trail, usually referred to simply as the Highline Trail

Highline Trail

The Highline Trail in Glacier National Park is a scenic hiking trail stretching from Logan Pass to Granite Park Chalet, and continuing another from there to Fifty Mountain Campground. The trail follows the Garden Wall ridge and the continental divide for most of its length. The trail offers...

. Much of the trail passes through the scenic Garden Wall

Garden Wall

The Garden Wall is a steep alpine area within Glacier National Park well known during the summer months to be heavily covered in dozens of species of flowering plants and shrubs...

 section of the park, immediately west and parallel to the Continental Divide

Continental Divide

The Continental Divide of the Americas, or merely the Continental Gulf of Division or Great Divide, is the name given to the principal, and largely mountainous, hydrological divide of the Americas that separates the watersheds that drain into the Pacific Ocean from those river systems that drain...

. The chalet is also accessible via the Loop Trail (4 miles (6.4 km), 2200 feet (670.6 m) elevation gain) and the Swiftcurrent Trail (7.5 miles (12.1 km), 2300 feet (701 m) elevation gain). The trails are for hikers and horseback riders only; no vehicle access is provided. Granite Park Chalet is a limited services facility and those that spend the night make use of the full service kitchen to cook their own meals.

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