Courtesy Montana Office of Tourism Compared to most areas in the
North American West, Glacier has lots of water. There are 131
named lakes in the Park, approximately 200 lakes are over five
acres. Lake McDonald is the largest (10 miles long) and deepest
(464 feet) body of water in the park. Glacier's water can be
considered the headwaters of the entire continent. From Triple
Divide Peak, a droplet can theoretically split 3 ways and
eventually make it to the Pacific, Atlantic and Hudson Bay
watersheds. A sacred place for Blackfeet Indian vision quests,
Montana’s Glacier National Park can be painted in colors: green
Lake MacDonald, red brick wall bordering the Going-to-the-Sun
Road that bisects the park, the startling blue Birdwoman Falls
plunging into the green hanging valley below, the white-capped
peaks with names like Heavy Runner, Siyeh, Gunsight, and Triple
Divide. The 1,600-square mile park―dubbed by explorer George
Bird Grinnell as “The Crown of the Continent” ―can also be
painted by numbers. Formed mor