Avalanche Lake

Trail description

A 3.5 km walk with about 170 m of climbing from the Going-to-the-Sun Road to Avalanche Lake, in Glacier National Park. The trail roughly follows Avalanche Creek, a whitewater creek that drains the lake into Haystack Creek. The lake lies south-west of Bearhat Mountain and is fed by meltwater from Sperry Glacier. It was named in 1895 by a party including Lyman Sperry, who saw many avalanches during their stay.

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