Format:
1 online resource (408 pages)
ISBN:
9780899977355
Series Statement:
Top Trails
Content:
Glacier National Park's remote locale allows visitors to experience an intact ecosystem that hosts nearly all wildlife and bird species that were found a century ago when Congress designated the 1.2 million acres as America's 10th national park. Here at that Crown of the Continent, hikers use the guide to access a mountain pass where meltwater drains to three different oceans. Trail users retrace routes to some 200 sapphire blue or turquoise green lakes, following trails along some of the park's 1,557 miles of streams and rivers and discovering some of Glacier's 200 named waterfalls. The ever-changing landscape encourages trail users, photographers, and nature lovers to return to Glacier to explore glacial tarns as they melt, aspens as they quake golden in the fall, and even recovering landscapes from large wildfires a decade ago. This guide also reveals historically significant information about the park and the trails, culturally significant waypoints, Blackfeet Indian and other Native American traditional use, ongoing scientific research and sustainable practices in Glacier. Top Trails: Glacier National Park by local author Jean Arthur leads visitors to secluded trails and unique settings while providing details of current and past human activity, wildlife movement, wildfire's importance, and geologic changes that altered the landscape and created America's 10th national park. The unique approach of Top Trails: Glacier National Park reveals why certain trails wend alongside sensitive meadows or climb above crystalline lakes. The guide leads hikers to backcountry respites, unique to Glacier. The guide also traces outlaws, poachers, and mining ventures that occurred inside the current park boundary.
Content:
Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- The Top Trails™ Series -- Glacier National Park Map -- Map Legend -- Glacier National Park Trails Table -- Contents -- Using Top Trails™ -- Introduction to Glacier National Park and Waterton Lakes National Park -- On the Trail -- Chapter 1 West Side Trails: Lake McDonald Area and the North Fork -- 1 Trail of the Cedars -- 2 Avalanche Lake Trail -- 3 Sperry Chalet via Gunsight Pass Trail -- 4 Snyder Lake Trail -- 5 Fish Lake via Snyder Ridge Fire Trail -- 6 Mount Brown Lookout Trail -- 7 Going-to-the-Sun (Winter Trail) -- 8 Apgar Lookout Trail -- 9 Huckleberry Mountain Lookout Trail -- 10 Forest and Fire Nature Trail (formerly Huckleberry Nature Trail) -- 11 Akokala Lake Trail -- 12 Quartz Lake Loop -- 13 Logging Lake Trail -- 14 Boulder Pass Trail to Hole in the Wall -- 15 Bowman Lake Trail to Goat Haunt and Waterton, Canada -- Chapter 2 Logan Pass and Saint Mary Area -- 16 Hidden Lake Trail -- 17 Highline Trail to Granite Park Chalet (along the Garden Wall) -- 18 Loop Trail to Granite Park Chalet -- 19 Siyeh Bend Trail and Piegan Pass Trail (Siyeh Bend to Jackson Glacier Overlook) -- 20 Siyeh Pass Trail -- 21 Piegan Pass Trail -- 22 Gunsight Pass Trail to Gunsight Lake -- 23 Sun Point Nature Trail to Reynolds Creek -- 24 Saint Mary Falls Trail -- 25 Otokomi Lake/Rose Creek Trail -- 26 Beaver Pond Trail -- Chapter 3 Two Medicine and South Boundary Area -- 27 Running Eagle Falls Nature Trail (aka Trick Falls) -- 28 Upper Two Medicine Lake Trail and Twin Falls -- 29 Dawson Pass and Pitamakan Pass Trail (Oldman Lake) -- 30 Cobalt Lake via Two Medicine Pass Trail -- 31 Mount Henry Trail to Scenic Point -- 32 Autumn Creek Trail -- 33 Firebrand Pass Trail -- Chapter 4 Many Glacier Area -- 34 Apikuni Falls Trail (aka Appekunny Falls Trail) -- 35 Swiftcurrent Lake Nature Trail -- 36 Grinnell Glacier Trail.
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Additional Edition:
9780899977348
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe 9780899977348
Language:
English
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