U.S. Mint art for the top contenders for the Glacier National Park quarter design.
Early in 2010, the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee reviewed three candidate designs for reverse of the 2011 Glacier National Park quarter. For the first time ever, the committee gave its highest marks to the designs for Glacier National and Olympic National Parks. The favored Glacier designs show a mountain goat in the foreground with a towering peak in the background. The mountain goat is the park’s official symbol.
All of Glacier National Park is in northern Montana along the Continental Divide, and is the 5th largest U.S. national park, covering over 1 million acres. It became protected as a forest preserve in 1897, and a park during the presidency of William Howard Taft. In 1932 through the efforts of Rotary Intl., the park joined with Canada’s Waterton Lakes National Park to become Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park, honoring the long-standing friendship between the two countries.
Whether it’s the mountain goats against a dramatic backdrop, or a majestic mountain peak, each candidate design captures the geological features and rich history associated with Glacier National Park.
