GPI's parent company acquires Alaskan holdings

Glacier Park Inc.'s parent company, Viad Corp., has expanded its holdings near a national park for the third time this year.

The Phoenix-based company's wholly-owned subsidiary, Alaskan Park Properties, Inc., recently acquired Denali Backcountry Lodge, Denali Cabins and related assets in and near Denali National Park and Preserve, in Alaska.

Denali Backcountry Lodge offers 42 guest rooms on six acres inside the national park. Denali Cabins offers 46 guest rooms on six acres just outside the park's entrance.

Alaskan Park Properties, Inc., is part of Viad's Travel & Recreation Group, which also includes the Brewster Travel Canada bus line and Glacier Park Inc.

This year, GPI purchased the 145-room Grouse Mountain Lodge, in Whitefish, and the 115-room St. Mary Lodge, just outside Glacier National Park's east entrance in St. Mary.

GPI owns the Glacier Park Lodge, in East Glacier, and runs all the large lodges inside Glacier Park. It also operates the Park's historic red bus tours and the Prince of Wales Hotel, in Waterton Lakes National Park, in Alberta, Canada.