Many Glacier Waterfalls (Glacier National Park, Montana, USA)

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Many Glacier Waterfalls

The Many Glacier Waterfalls page is where I'm putting a bunch of the waterfalls that we've noticed and photographed while visiting the Many Glacier area of Glacier National Park. I'm well aware that some of the falls I'm including on this page can be seen in more intimate hiking excursions, but since we've essentially treated the waterfalls here as miscellaneous roadside attractions during our trip, we'll thus document them accordingly on this page.

Some of these waterfalls may have formal names, but I don't think I can accurately identify them by name without a little more information (that I probably could've obtained by doing some of these hikes, which I had to be selective about due to time and grizzly bears).

Directions: The waterfalls on this page were primarily seen on the Many Glacier Road. This road branches west from Hwy 89 in Babb, MT. Babb is about 8.5 miles north of St Mary, MT and a little over 10 miles south of the US-Canada border on Hwy 89.

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Mountains backing cascade that drained Swiftcurrent Lake (the photo at the top of this page is a closer look of the same cascade)

Distant view of a cascade as seen from a trail that headed west of the Swiftcurrent Motor Lodge car park

Not certain if this is Ptarmigan Falls or not. But I got this view from a trail just west of the car park for the Swiftcurrent Motor Lodge

Very distant view of Grinnell Falls

I think this thin cascade is on Allen Creek

Mountains and Swiftcurrent Lake as seen from Many Glacier Hotel

More direct view of Swiftcurrent Lake with whitecaps thanks to gusty winds

Lake Sherburne, which is actually held up by a man-made dam

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For more information about our experiences with this waterfall, check out the following travel stories.

September 23, 2010

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