Glacier Park Hidden Lake Hike

The trailhead starts behind Logan Pass Visitor's Center. The visitor center has no food or drinks so be prepared. There is a bathroom and a small gift shop. 

Try to get here early because the parking lot fills up fast and you might have to keep driving around looking for a parking place. 

Hidden Lake Trail is a popular hike at Glacier National Park! The trail is 3 miles to the lookout and another 3 miles to the lake. Most of the first half is boardwalk. Have your camera we usually always see mountain goats, bighorn sheep and other wildlife. 

Have fun!!

The view is amazing driving up the Going to the Sun Road 

 We parked in the Logan Pass parking lot and here we are heading up the boardwalk on the Hidden Lake Trail. 6 miles total

 Along the way we saw my favorite animals the mountain goats!!!

 Looking back toward Logan Pass parking lot. 

 Looking down at Hidden Lake. Were hiking down to the bottom today. 

 The mountain goats like to take the trails too!!

 Coming back down the boardwalk.  Really neat hike that doesn't take that long. 

 We made it down to Hidden Lake. It was a smoky day out because of some forest fires. 

Many Glacier MT Glacier National Park Montana

Just before you get to Many Glacier Lodge we see Lake Sherburne. 

Here is Swiftcurrent Lake. 

Many Glacier sits on the shore of Swiftcurrent Lake. 

Many Glacier Hotel is a five-story hotel and was opened to the public on July 4, 1915. Very rustic with 214 guest rooms. Wildlife is abundant at Many Glacier. We call it the primitive side of Glacier Park. 

This day we saw 10 bears, 9 black and 1 grizzly crossed our path close enough to see her collar. We really love Many Glacier!! Remember your bear spray when hiking in bear country. We hiked along the shore of Swiftcurrent Lake to Lake Josephine and around continued around Lake Josephine and caught the boat to the other end of Lake Josephine where we hiked back around Swiftcurrent Lake and to our car. Not a long hike but well worth it. Just beautiful!!

We had lunch before our hike and the food was great! I had the lettuce wrapped red bean burger and it was excellent! 

Need the phone number to Many Glacier

406-732-4411

406-892-2525

We saw a group of riding coming back from a half day ride in Many Glacier. If you need to contact and find out information about riding in the park here is the phone number to 

Swan Mountain Outfitters

1-877-888-5557

Our family has  been on a few trail rides in Many Glacier and the Lake McDonald ride. Both are great and the wranglers are very friendly!!

St. Mary's I saw this line up of tour buses. 

Jewel Basin Hike to Mt. Aeneas Bigfork, Montana

The Jewel Basin is found above the eastside of Flathead Valley. 

To find Jewel Basin just follow the signs from highway 83 just outside Bigfork. When you get to the Jewel Basin turnoff soon you will be on eight miles of gravel road that tends to be bumpy and narrow. 

The elevation of the trailhead is 500 feet and Mt. Aeneas, just tips over 7500 feet. 

The trails in the Jewel Basin are reserved for hiking only. 

The hike starts from Camp Misery ranger station parking lot. Camp Misery got it's name from a local tribe that spent a terrible winter there.

We had a great hike. We had bear spray but didn't need it. Saw mountain goats, elk and deer. 

 The strange building on the ridge of Mt Aeneas is a Microwave Tower. 

 Love seeing the mountain goats

After standing in 1919 where we stand today, the Reverend Eugene Cosgrove would give a moving sermon on “The Secret of Wilderness” at the Unitarian Church in Helena:

“Hidden away by the Gods, like a necklace of pearls, among the crags and fastness of the [Swan] Mountains, lies the Jewel Basin, the enchanted land of this our Montana. Friends, I have seen the sun set on the minarets of Spain, and make splendid the dome of St. Sophia in Constantinople. I have watched the play of color upon the desert of Egypt, with the Sphinx and pyramids. I have made a trail through the hinterland of the Canadian Rockies, to where the Aurora Borealis from the polar skies make the northern night glorious... but for kaleidoscopic lights and shadows, for octaves of tone and color, for unending variety of the moods and forms of Nature, Jewel Basin is the most charmed and charming spot in all the world.” Found HERE

Some history how Jewel Basin became a hiking only area. Cliff Merritt helped secure Congressional Wilderness protection for many areas in Montana in 1964, including the Bob Marshall Wilderness, and helped form the Montana Wilderness Assoc. to advocate for more wilderness in Montana. Found in the Lake Shore Country Journal. 

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