Sacred Dancing Cascade (Glacier National Park, Montana, USA)

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Sacred Dancing Cascade

Sacred Dancing Cascade, I believe, pertains to the wide river waterfall we saw just upstream from a footbridge spanning the McDonald Creek. Even though there were more rapids and cascades further upstream of this falls (with additional viewing platforms), I'm pretty confident that it's the waterfall pictured at the top of this page that is being referred to. This is further reinforced by the fact that the name of the falls isn't even plural.

Anyways, like McDonald Falls, this is pretty much a roadside waterfall though it did require a short two-minute walk to get from the large pullout/car park to the footbridge with the frontal view of the cascade. Further east on the Going-to-the-Sun Road, there were more pullouts and viewing decks of more bland cascades and rapids, and I'd imagine that since there weren't any signs identifying one waterfall from the next that this would be the source of a lot of confusion for waterfallers.

In any case, I did mark GPS waypoints and compared it to my Topo! map to confirm that I did indeed identify this waterfall correctly.

Directions: The pullout for Sacred Dancing Cascade is less than a half-mile east of the pullout for McDonald Falls. See the McDonald Falls page for more details.

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Another look at the cascade

Looking upstream at some chute-type waterfall from one of the other viewing decks above what I think is the real cascade

Viewing deck further east of where I think the actual cascade is

Looking downstream over some rapids and mini-cascades from the viewing deck

Closeup look at the main cascade

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Bottom up sweep of the falls

Bottom up sweep looking downstream from the footbridge away from the falls

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September 24, 2010

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