East Glacier Park Village, Montana, sits in USDA hardiness zone 4a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Well-matched crops include cabbage, cranberry, cilantro, and collard greens, and the gap between "grows in the area" and "grows in your yard" is closed by soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in East Glacier Park Village, no two yards are alike.
A low spot, a south-facing slope, or a stand of trees moves the frost date and sun across a single East Glacier Park Village lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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East Glacier Park Village — the short answer
East Glacier Park Village, Montana: USDA zone 4a, about 132 days between hard freezes, across 3K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 4a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- May 16
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Sep 25
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~132
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 3K acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. Hard-freeze dates are this town’s own 28°F normals: light frosts run a few weeks past them, and tender transplants usually wait 2–3 weeks after the last hard freeze.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 4a is East Glacier Park Village's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against East Glacier Park Village's 132-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in East Glacier Park Village
Each reading below is measured for East Glacier Park Village itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredEast Glacier Park Village runs about 132 days between hard freezes — a short growing season.
Long-maturing crops like melons, sweet potatoes, and winter squash can run out of runway before the first hard freeze, ripening late or not at all.
Lead with fast-maturing varieties, and stretch the season on both ends with cold frames, low tunnels, or a greenhouse.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredEast Glacier Park Village sits in USDA hardiness zone 4a.
The zone sets which perennials, shrubs, and fruit trees live through an average winter here — a plant rated for a colder zone is a safe bet, one rated warmer needs winter protection or gets treated as an annual.
Match perennials and fruit to the zone before you buy, so nothing you plant is a gamble against the cold.
USDA PHZM 2023
The kind of country East Glacier Park Village is in
East Glacier Park Village sits in the Canadian Rockies — EPA Level III, inside the wider Northwestern Forested Mountains. That is read at East Glacier Park Village's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Glacier County is mostly Northwestern Glaciated Plains. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in East Glacier Park Village
Every plant below cleared East Glacier Park Village's own zone 4a and its 132-day season. Each card opens that plant's Montana profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in East Glacier Park Village?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Apr 18; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near May 16 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Sep 25 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Even here the calendar’s edges hold value: thirty-day greens late in the window, then garlic and a rested bed for spring.
What's on the federal record near East Glacier Park Village
Closest first, within ~10 miles of East Glacier Park Village. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- GLACIER PARK INCBrownfields · 500 ft
- SUN POINT PICNIC AREAUnderground Storage Tanks · 600 ft
- GLACIER PARK INC MAINTENANCE SHOPBrownfields · 700 ft
- SEARS MOTEL & GIFT SHOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- MT DOT EAST GLACIER PARKBrownfields · 1700 ft
- CIRCLE R SERVICESUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- FORMER HUSKY STATION EAST GLACIER PARKUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- EAST GLACIER FUEL STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- OIL WEST SERVICESUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- GLACIER PARK LODGE SERVICE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.0 mi
- 32N12W07ADDD01Nitrate · 7.1 mi
- KIOWA RESORTUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.2 mi
3 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from East Glacier Park Village's center, not your beds. Run your own address for what's upwind of you specifically.
Environmental Intelligence
The counts behind that headline — every source type on the record near East Glacier Park Village.
Total Sites
19
within ~10 miles of East Glacier Park Village
Risk Level
Low
Highest-severity
3 brownfield sites
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of East Glacier Park Village
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of East Glacier Park Village
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
Check your specific parcel in East Glacier Park Village
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Your land is one point inside East Glacier Park Village
Everything above resolves to East Glacier Park Village as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 3K acres. Your parcel is one point inside that footprint. Slope, tree cover, a low spot that pools cold air, and what is in the soil are all resolved at the address, and none of them are visible at town scale. That is the honest boundary of this page, and the reason the next step is a reading of your own ground rather than a better local average.
Your Lot vs the East Glacier Park Village Average
East Glacier Park Village Average
- ●USDA Zones 4a, averaged across East Glacier Park Village
- ●One soil character for all of East Glacier Park Village
- ●Frost dates read at East Glacier Park Village's scale: May 16 to Sep 25
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not East Glacier Park Village's 4a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in East Glacier Park Village
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in East Glacier Park Village, Montana — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that East Glacier Park Village averages can't show:
We read public map data around East Glacier Park Village — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the East Glacier Park Village average
How we know this about East Glacier Park Village
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this town’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at East Glacier Park Village’s own record; boundaries and acreage from US Census TIGER/Line 2025; the contamination records from the federal sources named in their beats above. Soil is not read at town grain anywhere on this page — there is no town-resolution survey in our data, which is why you will find no soil grid here rather than a statewide one wearing a local label. The resolution ledger below names every figure this page inherited.
Common questions about East Glacier Park Village
When does frost risk typically end in East Glacier Park Village?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in East Glacier Park Village typically lands around May 16, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — earlier than the light-frost dates most charts quote. That marks the hard freeze, not the last light frost — lighter frosts keep biting past it, which is why tender transplants here wait until about Jun 6.
When is the first frost in East Glacier Park Village?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in East Glacier Park Village typically arrives around Sep 25, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Sep 11, so the watching starts about Aug 26 — about 132 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in East Glacier Park Village?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, East Glacier Park Village sees about 132 frost-free days — roughly May 16 through Sep 25, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Jun 6 to Sep 11, about 97 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in East Glacier Park Village?
The federal record around East Glacier Park Village is light — 19 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Nitrate entries (8), the nearest Brownfields record under a tenth of a mile out — and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. Growing food here starts from a strong position; a soil test before new food beds settles any site-specific question.
How do gardeners stretch the season in East Glacier Park Village?
With about 132 frost-free days between hard freezes, East Glacier Park Village rewards the classic extension moves: floating row cover buys roughly two to four extra weeks at each shoulder — on this season that is a working window nearer 160 to 188 days — and cold frames or low tunnels buy more. Starting transplants indoors ahead of the May 16 hard-freeze normal stretches the season without touching the calendar.
Everything above is measured at East Glacier Park Village's scale — its 4a band and its 132-day season. Your yard writes its own version of East Glacier Park Village's numbers: we read soil, sun, drainage and frost at your exact address. Try it for 14 days — no card required.
What this page reads at East Glacier Park Village’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at East Glacier Park Village's own scale — its own ~132-day season between 28°F freezes, the 2,790 acres it covers and 19 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- East Glacier Park Village's own USDA hardiness band, zones 4aUSDA PHZM 2023
- East Glacier Park Village's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about May 16 and Sep 25 and the ~132-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 19 documented contamination sites on the federal record near East Glacier Park Village, the closest Brownfields record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- East Glacier Park Village's boundary and the 2,790 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 4a and a ~132-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- East Glacier Park Village sits in the Canadian Rockies — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so East Glacier Park Village's 2,790 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Glacier County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Glacier County
- The growing challenges every Montana grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Montana
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Glacier County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among East Glacier Park Village's 2,790 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of East Glacier Park Village you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,790 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields record under a tenth of a mile out, measured from the town centrehow we read the record →
- Where cold air settles, which slopes face the sun, and which way the wind runs on your own ground — measured at your address, and averaged away by any East Glacier Park Village-wide figureread your own land →