On the morning of May 2, 1911, Frank Whalen, Frank D. Stoop and T.J. Koenig drove from their home in Kalispell to Glacier National Park. Today, that seemingly simple feat takes about 45 minutes �...
Railroaders and railroad enthusiasts are a picky bunch — I should know since I’m among the latter. In the years leading up to the construction of the Kalispell Parkline, now on track to open ...
https://flatheadbeacon.com/2022/02/22/a-locomotive-for-kalispell/
Chocolate chip cookies. That was the key, a young Jasmine Morton thought, to getting inside the yellow mansion on a hill overlooking Somers. Since 1903, the 14-room, three-bathroom mansion had ...
https://flatheadbeacon.com/2021/09/08/saving-the-mansion-on-the-hill/
There are an endless number of ways to get to and through Glacier National Park. For the traditionalists among us, you can use your own two feet. For those wanting to add a little speed to their ...
Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in the summer 2019 edition of Flathead Living. Flathead Lake washes up to the edge of Robin and Patti Graham’s backyard in Somers. Sometimes, on ...
Everything he had with him the day he died fits inside a single cardboard box. Most of his possessions — a knife, sunglasses, a bottle of Aleve, a pipe, and a book — are shoved in brown paper...
The slopes at Whitefish’s Big Mountain have been unusually quiet for the last three months. On March 15, Whitefish Mountain Resort made a sudden announcement that it was closing three weeks ear...
https://flatheadbeacon.com/2020/06/11/coming-back-big-mountain/
Brad Abell has apparently emerged from a three-way primary field to become the Republican nominee for a seat on the Flathead County Commission currently held by Phil Mitchell, who didn’t run fo...
A decision on a request to allow a concrete and asphalt batch plant at a West Valley gravel pit has been delayed after drawing mixed reviews from nearby residents and an appeal. The Flathead Coun...
https://flatheadbeacon.com/2020/06/02/request-allow-asphalt-plant-west-valley-gravel-pit-appealed/
A group calling itself “The Friends of Lake Five” is suing the Flathead County Commission after the board granted a major land-use permit to a controversial guest cabin development in West Gl...
https://flatheadbeacon.com/2020/05/31/county-sued-lake-five-guest-cabin-approval/