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Best Easy Day Hikes: Glacier & Waterton Lakes Guide Book

by Erik Molvar (Falcon Publishing)
Best Easy Day Hikes: Glacier & Waterton Lakes

100pp/maps
ISBN: 156044651X

Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park is home to a vast network of hiking trails. But if you’re only going to be in Glacier and Waterton national parks for a day or two, have time for only one or two short hikes, and you’re looking for trails that are not too physically demanding, which trails should you choose? This book answers that question. It contains short descriptions and maps of the author’s favorite easy day hikes in Glacier and Waterton. All of the hikes in this little book are relatively short, on well-defined, easy-to-follow trails that take you to some of the area’s most spectacular scenery—without taking you to physical extremes.

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Trails from the "Best Easy Day Hikes: Glacier & Waterton Lakes" Guide Book
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... Preview: This short, steep trail leads up to the desolate cliffs of Apikuni Mountain to visit a long and slender waterfall. Hikers will get excellent mountain views throughout the trek. The hike begins on Apik ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Glacier & Waterton Lakes"
Babb, MT - Hiking - Trail Length: 2 miles (About Top Trails)
... Preview: This trail climbs to a small waterfall in the barren gorge of Appistoki Creek. It begins in a pleasant woodland of subalpine fir, lit by the blossoms of bear grass in early summer of favorable years. ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Glacier & Waterton Lakes"
East Glacier, MT - Hiking - Trail Length: 1.2 miles
... Preview: This route combines the early reaches of the Two Medicine Loop with a spur trail that visits a pretty waterfall then climbs to a high overlook above Two Medicine Lake. From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Glacier & Waterton Lakes"
East Glacier, MT - Hiking - Trail Length: 3.8 miles
... Preview: The Avalanche Lake Trail is one of the most popular hikes in Glacier, due to its gentle grade and spectacular destination. Hikers seeking solitude should go elsewhere, since throngs of bearbell-bedeck ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Glacier & Waterton Lakes"
West Glacier, MT - Hiking - Trail Length: 4.6 miles
... Preview: Though lacking in spectacular scenery, this hike runs through a pleasant landscape of coniferous forests, grassy meadows, and aspen groves. It receives few visitors and is thus a good place to find so ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Glacier & Waterton Lakes"
Saint Mary, MT - Hiking - Trail Length: 3.4 miles
... Preview: This trail descends along the northwest bank of Red Rock Creek to reach a stout bridge above Bauerman Creek. Mount Blakiston rises to the south, while Anderson Peak is to the west. Once across this br ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Glacier & Waterton Lakes"
Cardston, AB - Hiking - Trail Length: 1.6 miles
... Preview: This trail follows the northwestern shore of Bowman Lake for 7 miles of gentle up-and-down hiking. It may be used as a backpack route in itself, or as a day hike of any length along the lakeshore. The ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Glacier & Waterton Lakes"
Polebridge, MT - Hiking - Trail Length: 14 miles
... Preview: This hike follows the Swiftcurrent Valley past a chain of pretty lakes, visiting Redrock Falls along the way. The trail begins at the Swiftcurrent Motor Lodge and winds westward along the valley floor ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Glacier & Waterton Lakes"
Babb, MT - Hiking - Trail Length: 6.6 miles
... Preview: This trail runs along the western shore of Cameron Lake, one of the prettiest lakes in the Waterton–Glacier area. The trail runs through the spruce and fir woodland beside the lake, climbing and falli ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Glacier & Waterton Lakes"
Cardston, AB - Hiking - Trail Length: 2.2 miles
... Preview: This trail visits a glacier-fed lake at the base of a stunning waterfall. The lake is reached most easily by taking a tour boat across Swiftcurrent Lake and Lake Josephine. More adventurous hikers can ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Glacier & Waterton Lakes"
Babb, MT - Hiking - Trail Length: 6.8 miles (About Top Trails)
... Preview: This section of the Highline Trail is one of the most popular hikes in the park, owing to its spectacular vistas, excellent wildlife viewing opportunities, and low level of difficulty. The trail follo ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Glacier & Waterton Lakes"
Saint Mary, MT - Hiking - Trail Length: 6.8 miles (About Top Trails)
... Preview: The trail to Hidden Lake provides some of the quickest access to high alpine country in Glacier National Park. It starts as a boardwalk, climbing moderately through fields of wildflowers above the Log ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Glacier & Waterton Lakes"
Saint Mary, MT - Hiking - Trail Length: 6 miles
... Preview: This self-guiding loop trail visits the thirty-year-old burn at the foot of Huckleberry Mountain. A pamphlet available at the trailhead sheds light on the forest regeneration that follows a fire. The ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Glacier & Waterton Lakes"
West Glacier, MT - Hiking - Trail Length: 0.9 miles
... Preview: Iceberg Lake is a striking, aquamarine tarn surrounded on three sides by towering cliffs. Ice-out may not occur here until mid-July, and the bergs for which the lake was named may be seen floating abo ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Glacier & Waterton Lakes"
Babb, MT - Hiking - Trail Length: 9.1 miles
... Preview: This popular loop runs through the forest above the head of Lake McDonald, visiting a woodland lake as well as Sacred Dancing Cascade and McDonald Falls along McDonald Creek. Parts of the trail receiv ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Glacier & Waterton Lakes"
West Glacier, MT - Hiking - Trail Length: 2.4 miles
... Preview: This long day hike follows the Waterton Valley Trail up the Waterton River from Goat Haunt Ranger Station, at the head of Waterton Lake. Hikers who attempt this route should catch a boat shuttle early ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Glacier & Waterton Lakes"
Cardston, AB - Hiking - Trail Length: 5.6 miles
... Preview: This pleasant jaunt runs up Lineham Creek to a headwall that rises below a high lake basin. A trail with cable handrails once climbed the headwall with the assistance of cable handrails, but that rout ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Glacier & Waterton Lakes"
Cardston, AB - Hiking - Trail Length: 5.2 miles
... Preview: This popular day hike along Waterton Lake offers interpretive signs along the route, explaining the ecology of the ever-changing forest. At the end of the trek is the graceful veil of Lower Bertha Fal ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Glacier & Waterton Lakes"
Cardston, AB - Hiking - Trail Length: 3.8 miles
... Preview: This short hike follows a fragment of the old packer’s trail that ran up the McDonald Creek valley before Going-to-the-Sun Road was built. Here McDonald Creek is guarded by the low walls of a distinct ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Glacier & Waterton Lakes"
West Glacier, MT - Hiking - Trail Length: 6.8 miles
... Preview: This relatively obscure and lightly traveled trail follows the roadless northwestern shore of Lake McDonald. The trail stays mostly within heavy forest, but at several isolated points it visits the la ... From the guidebook "Best Easy Day Hikes: Glacier & Waterton Lakes"
West Glacier, MT - Hiking - Trail Length: 6.6 miles

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