Top Trails : Must-Do Hikes for Everyone.
Title:
Top Trails : Must-Do Hikes for Everyone.
Author:
Arthur, Jean.
ISBN:
9780899977355
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (408 pages)
Series:
Top Trails
Contents:
Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- The Top Trails™ Series -- Overview Map -- Trail Features Table -- Contents -- Map Legend -- 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 -- West Side Area Overview -- West Side Area Map -- West Side Trail Features Table -- West Side Trail Summaries -- TRAIL 1 Trail of the Cedars -- TRAIL 2 Avalanche Lake Trail -- TRAIL 3 Sperry Chalet via Gunsight Pass Trail -- TRAIL 4 Snyder Lake Trail -- TRAIL 5 Fish Lake via Snyder Ridge Fire Trail -- TRAIL 6 Mount Brown Lookout Trail -- TRAIL 7 Going-to-the-Sun (Winter Trail) -- TRAIL 8 Apgar Lookout Trail -- TRAIL 9 Huckleberry Mountain Lookout Trail -- TRAIL 10 Forest and Fire Nature Trail -- TRAIL 11 Akokala Lake Trail -- TRAIL 12 Quartz Lake Loop -- TRAIL 13 Logging Lake Trail -- TRAIL 14 Boulder Pass Trail to Hole in the Wall -- TRAIL 15 Bowman Lake Trail to Goat Haunt and Waterton, Canada -- CHAPTER 2Logan Pass andSaint Mary Area -- Logan Pass Area Overview -- Logan Pass Area Map -- Logan Pass Trail Features Table -- Logan Pass Trail Summaries -- TRAIL 16 Hidden Lake Trail -- TRAIL 17 Highline Trail to Granite Park Chalet (along the Garden Wall) -- TRAIL 18 Loop Trail to Granite Park Chalet -- TRAIL 19 Siyeh Bend Trail and Piegan Pass Trail (Siyeh Bend to Jackson Glacier Overlook) -- TRAIL 20 Siyeh Pass Trail (Siyeh Bend to Sunrift Gorge) -- TRAIL 21 Piegan Pass Trail -- TRAIL 22 Gunsight Pass Trail to Gunsight Lake -- TRAIL 23 Sun Point Nature Trail to Reynolds Creek -- TRAIL 24 Saint Mary Falls Trail -- TRAIL 25 Otokomi Lake/Rose Creek Trail -- TRAIL 26 Beaver Pond Trail -- CHAPTER 3 Two Medicine and South Boundary Area -- Two Medicine Area Overview -- Two Mediicine Area Map -- Two Medicine Trail Features Table.
Two Medicine Trail Summaries -- TRAIL 27 Running Eagle Falls Nature Trail -- TRAIL 28 Upper Two Medicine Lake Trail and Twin Falls -- TRAIL 29 Dawson Pass and Pitamakan Pass Trail (Oldman Lake) -- TRAIL 30 Cobalt Lake via Two Medicine Pass Trail -- TRAIL 31 Mount Henry Trail to Scenic Point -- TRAIL 32 Autumn Creek Trail -- TRAIL 33 Firebrand Pass Trail -- CHAPTER 4 Many Glacier Area -- Many Glacier Area Overview -- Many Glacier Area Map -- Many Glacier Trail Features Table -- Many Glacier Trail Summaries -- TRAIL 34 Apikuni Falls Trail (aka Appekunny Falls Trail) -- TRAIL 35 Swiftcurrent Lake Nature Trail -- TRAIL 36 Grinnell Glacier Trail -- TRAIL 37 Iceberg Lake -- TRAIL 38 Ptarmigan Tunnel Trail -- CHAPTER 5 Waterton Lakes National Park, Canada -- Waterton Lakes Area Overview -- Waterton Lakes Area Map -- Waterton Lakes Trail Features Table -- Waterton Lakes Trail Summaries -- TRAIL 39 Bertha Lake Trail -- TRAIL 40 Crypt Lake Trail -- Appendix 1 Top-Rated Trails -- Appendix 2 Campgrounds and RV Parks -- Appendix 3 Hotels, Lodges, Motels, and Resorts -- Appendix 4 Major Organizations -- Appendix 5 Useful Books -- Index -- About the Author.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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