Hidden Lake Overlook TrailIf your looking for a peaceful, uncrowded hike then your on the wrong trail. Hidden Lake Overlook Trail is a fairly easy hike which starts behind the Logan Pass Visitor Center. Trail starts at 6,646 feet and gains 460 feet, so even though this is an easy trail, the altitude can change how easy you find this trail. Weather conditions change rapidly on this trail! Although I have hiked up to the overlook and back without meeting a single person, it is rare. I've hiked this trail at least fifty times in the last nineteen years, so I've gotten pretty good at guessing when it won't be crowded. When the trail is snow covered I wear cleats and carry hiking poles. There are some narrow, steep drop off sections on this trail that are the last to be snow free. Hiking across snow can be tricky, easy to twist your ankle or tweak your knee. Snow bridges caused by spring melt undercutting the snow above can be hazardous. When the Hidden Lake Overlook Trail is snow covered, Glacier National Park usually marks the trail, for your own safety follow the markers for the trail. Be prepared for winter like conditions at any time, any month.The Hidden Lake Overlook Trail starts out as a blacktop surface, then turns to a series of wooden steps and boardwalks. This part of the trail is elevated to protect the alpine surface. Almost as soon as the snow melts from the first part of the Hidden Lake Overlook Trail the alpine meadow turns yellow from the blooms of the glacier lilies. 
 
Mountain goat just before Hidden Lake Overlook. I don't think I have ever hiked this trail and not encountered a mountain goat.  Mountain goat Hidden Lake Overlook Glacier National Park. This trail goes from complete snow cover to large areas of blooming glacier lilies in a very short time. Hidden Lake view point about a 1/4 mile past the Overlook, just before steep steps going down the Hidden Lake Trail to Hidden Lake. Most of the hikers stop at the wooden deck and don't get to this spot on the Hidden Lake Trail. The trail is flat until this point and provides a different view of Hidden Lake. The mountain goat with kid was taken at this spot on the Hidden Lake Trail.  |
Hidden Lake Trail October of 2003. Frozen falls overlooking Logan Pass.
Big Horn Rams have been plentiful in the Logan Pass area for the past several years. There are two bands of Big Horn Rams the smaller band is comprised mainly of older Rams, the larger band has more younger, energetic Rams.