Out and back, 5 mile (total) hike on maintained trail. The destination is Avalanche lake, which is created by melting glaciers. This is a family friendly hike with gradual incline to the lake and decline on the way back. The trail head starts at the Trail of the Cedars.
Trails
Summary
Difficulty
Distance
Trail of The Cedars - Glacier National Park
A short loop hike through a cedar forest to Avalanche Gorge that is wheelchair accessible as well
A short loop hike through a cedar forest to Avalanche Gorge that is wheelchair accessible as well
Easy
1.5 mi/
2.4 km
2.4 km
Highline Trail - Glacier National Park
One of the best trails in the entire park, and a shuttle will even bring you back to your car at Logan Pass
One of the best trails in the entire park, and a shuttle will even bring you back to your car at Logan Pass
Moderate
11.4 mi/
18.3 km
18.3 km
Grinnell Glacier - Glacier National Park
A beautiful hike to a glacial lake beneath a massive melting glacier.
A beautiful hike to a glacial lake beneath a massive melting glacier.
Moderate
12.0 mi/
19.3 km
19.3 km
Guides
One of the best trails in the entire park, and a shuttle will even bring you back to your car at Logan Pass
A beautiful hike to a glacial lake beneath a massive melting glacier.
A short loop hike through a cedar forest to Avalanche Gorge that is wheelchair accessible as well
Community Trips
Awesome hike in some absolutely gorgeous country. My father and I started off with a boat rides from the Many Glacier Hotel across Swiftcurrent Lake. There is a fifth of a mile long paved trail connecting Swiftcurrent Lake from Lake Josephine. Once departing Morning Eagle, the fun old boat serving Lake Josephine, the trail heads to the North for a short ways before heading West and steadily ascending towards Upper Grinnell Lake.The...
Highline Trail (The Loop), Glacier NP, MT, USA
Glacier National Park, Montana, United States
14.2 miles
14.2 miles
A must-do hike, BEAUTIFUL. Â Click on the blog word to see our blog
Beautiful and demanding hike to Mount Brown Lookout.
This was a short hike from Going to the Sun road to Virginia falls.
Saturday - Breakfast with Rachel & Jon then the Highline Trail in Glacier National Park. After a wonderful breakfast with Rachel and Jon at the same place we went to with Kenny Emily and I hit the road towards Glacier National Park. This time we only had an afternoon to spend in the park so we went by the short trails Kenny and I had gone on. I wanted to finally hike...
A trip to the Rocky Mountains Montana in 2008 .  Drove as far as we could , the road is closed in winter so we walked the rest of the way up to  Logan Pass .Absolutely fell in love with the place , the photos do not do justice to the awe inspiring scenery . It is hard to get an idea of scale even when you are there , just look...
Nice little walk for the whole family. Great scenery and not too long for young boys.
Grinnel Glacier and Red Rock Falls, Glacier NP, MT, USA
Glacier National Park, Montana, United States
21 miles
21 miles
http://samh.net/backpacking/?do=showproduct&id=106During August of 2003, Mark, Matt and Sam got together for an excursion
out and back to Cracker Lake in the Many Glacier district on the east
side of Glacier National Park.Fed by meltwaters from an active glacier, Cracker Lake is filled
with minute particles of rock, ground up by the glacier. These tiny
particles, suspended in the water, reflect and refract light giving the
lake its deep opalescent color.
Once the scene of a mining boom in...
