Glacier National Park Vacation Winner Announced

Business Wire, May 1, 2002

Business Editors & Travel Writers

COLUMBIA FALLS, Mont.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 1, 2002

A Talladega, Alabama woman was recently announced as the winner of the 2002 Montana Glacier National Park vacation contest. Janice M. Mitchell, who has worked for the Alabama Institute for the Deaf and Blind for the past 21 years, is the mother of three and grandmother of five. Mitchell, who registered for the vacation on the Glacier Park Inc. website, was notified by e-mail by the company that she had won the free 5-day, 6-night trip, which includes airfare. Mitchell exclaimed, "Imagine my surprise when I learned that I was the winner of this once-in-a-lifetime experience! I had to read it several times to be sure I was reading it right."

Mitchell and her husband, Joe, will stay at the Glacier Park Lodge in East Glacier Park, Montana. Their scheduled activities include a guided horseback tour of the park and surrounding Indian reservation by a member of the Blackfoot Indian Tribe and a boat tour of the scenic Two Medicine Lakes area. After a ride up the famous Going-To-The-Sun Road, they will visit the area of the park commonly referred to as the Switzerland of North America. There, they will stay at Many Glacier Hotel on the shores of Swift Current Lake, within hiking distance of living glaciers. After crossing the Canadian border into Waterton Lakes National Park, they will visit the Prince of Wales Hotel and the historic hunting lodge at Lake McDonald Lodge. The Mitchells plan to take their vacation this coming July.

Glacier Park, Inc., (www.glacierparkinc.com) is a concessionaire authorized by the National Park Service to serve the public in Glacier National Park. The company, a subsidiary of Viad Corp (NYSE:VVI), operates seven historic hotels, seven restaurants, five retail gift shops, a pro golf shop, four campstores and interpretive tours in and around Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park.