Hidden Lake

 

Hidden Lake is an iconic scenery at Glacier National Park. It is located at the heart of the park, right by Logan Pass Visitor Center. The trail from the visitor center to the overlook is about 1.5 miles long. To get down to the lake side, it is about another 1 mile. Most people just hike to the overlook since heading down to the lake has high risk of bear encounter. So bear spray is a must when hiking this trail.

Since this is a very popular trail, we got to Logan Pass Visitor center around 6AM in the morning. The sunrise was at 6:30AM, so it was still twilight in the sky. Since the weather is quite smoggy, it felt darker than usual. As we started hiking, we were quite nervous as well because it was dark and we could not see very far to spot any bear if there was any. We were also the only people on the trail. As we hiked further for another 10 minutes, we ran into 3 girls sitting on the board walk waiting for the sun rise. They seemed quite cold and had blankets covering themselves.

The trail to the overlook was quite easy since it was just walking on the board walk. There were also a lot of wild flowers blossom along the side. It was quite nice. We got to the overlook around 6:40AM and the view was beautiful even though there was a lot of smoke. As we enjoyed the view, we saw a white furry animal climbed up the cliff. We were not sure what that was but it looked like a white monkey.

We did not head down to the lake since we wanted to do some other hike. As we headed back to the parking lot, there was stream of people on the trail. It was crazy. When we got back to the parking lot around 7AM, it was completely full. There were many cars circling around the parking lot but no one was going to leave this early.

It was unfortunate that the weather was quite smoggy due to the forest fire, but we still enjoyed the view on the trail. We definitely recommend to get to Logan Pass super early in the morning just to secure a parking space.