History

Established as a park on May 11, 1910.

Established as Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park in 1932.

Going-to-the-Sun Road completed in 1932.

Established as an International Biosphere Reserve, 1974.

Waterton Lakes National Park established in 1895.

Established as Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park World Heritage Site, 1995.

Water

Number of named lakes: 131.

Number of unnamed lakes: 631.

Total number of lakes: 762.

Acres of named lakes: 25,622.

Largest lake: Lake McDonald -- 9.4 miles long; 1.5 miles wide; 464 feet deep; 6,823 acres.

Number of streams: 563.

Total length of intermittent streams: 1307 miles.

Total lenght of perennial streams: 1514 miles.

Total miles of streams inside the park: 2,865 miles.

Longest stream: Upper McDonald Creek 25.8 miles.

Land

Acreage: 1,013,594 acres ... 500+ in private ownership.

Square miles: 1,583.

Miles of exterior boundary: 205.

Shared with Waterton National Park: 21 miles.

Shared with British Columbia: 31 miles.

Shared with U.S. Forest Service: 130 miles.

Acres of defacto wilderness: 963,155, or 1,489.3 sq. miles.

Elevation at Logan Pass: 6,646 feet.

Number of mountains: 175.

Highest mountain: 10,448 ft. ... Mt. Cleveland.

Number of glaciers: 26 named; all shrinking in size.

Largest glacier: Blackfoot Glacier -- .7 sq. miles.

Plants and Animals

Number of fish species : 24 -- 18 native and 7 nonnative. Lake trout are native in the Hudson Bay drainage, but are nonnative west of the Divide. They are listed on both the native and nonnative lists.

Number of species of animals: 57.

Number of species of birds: 210 documented.

Number of species of plants: 1,132 vascular and 858 nonvascular.