Hidden Lake Overlook, Glacier National Park

On November 11, 2016, in Montana, by admin
Hidden Lake Overview, Glacier National Park

Hidden Lake Overview, Glacier National Park (click to enlarge)

Here is the view from the Hidden Lake overlook at Glacier National Park.  The hike to the overlook is about 2.7 miles round trip from the Logan Pass Visitor Center.

The hike itself is not the least bit strenuous.  The first part is a boardwalk through an alpine meadow.  This scenic section is chock full of wide open panorama landscapes.  You can continue down from the overlook to Hidden Lake itself.  The trail goes along the right side of the image to the far right side of the lake.  Going down to the lake doubles the mileage, and also the elevation gain.  Easy to get down, much tougher to get back up!

We saw several mountain goats along the trail.  The first one we saw looked like a stuffed display standing by the side of the trail.  The goat did not move as we approached and eventually walked by it.  In another area two mountain goats walked within 10 yards of where we were standing.

One word of advice, get to the Logan Pass Visitor Center early!  We arrived in the parking lot around 0700 and it was filling up.  We returned to the parking lot around 1100 and it was packed with cars continuously circling looking for parking.  Shortly afterwards park rangers closed the parking lot completely.  Evidently rangers periodically close the parking lot to let traffic thin out.  We saw the same thing happen in Yellowstone National Park (I will post images from that trip later).

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