MANY GLACIER - trail status as of 3:17AM Mountain Time on 10-20-2020
Appekunny Falls Trail
Many Glacier Road to Appekunny Falls/ 1.0 mi.
CLOSED as part of general east side closure due to pandemic. See park web site for map with latest area closure.

Projected initial clearing date: Cleared 6/9/2020 per 650

Cracker Lake Trail
Trailhead at Hotel to Cracker Lake Campground/ 6.1 mi
CLOSED as part of general east side closure due to pandemic. See park web site for map with latest area closure.

Projected Initial Clearing Date: CLEARED TO SNOWLINE 6/3/2020 per 650

Feather Plume Falls Cutoff Trail (to Grinnell Lk.) 1.2
Grinnell Lk. to Piegan Pass Tr. at Feather Plume Falls/1.2mi
CLOSED as part of general east side closure due to pandemic. See park web site for map with latest area closure.

Projected initial clearing date: Cleared 6/10/2020 per 650

Upper Cataract Creek Suspension Bridge: Installed 6/10/2020 per 650 (FEATHERPLUME) Scheduled removal 10/1/2020 per 650

Grinnell Glacier Trail
From Josephine Lake to Glacier Overlook/ 3.7 mi.
CLOSED as part of general east side closure due to pandemic. See park web site for map with latest area closure.

Projected initial clearing date: 7/30/2020 per 658

Piegan Pass Trail (Upper Route)
From Hotel to Featherplume Falls Jct./ 4.1 mi.
CLOSED as part of general east side closure due to pandemic. See park web site for map with latest area closure.

Projected initial clearing date: Cleared 6/10/2020 per 650

Featherplume Falls Jct. to Piegan Pass/ 4.2 mi.
CLOSED as part of general east side closure due to pandemic. See park web site for map with latest area closure.

Projected initial clearing date: 7/31/2020 per 650 Morning Eagle Footbridge: Removed per 650

Ptarmigan/ Iceberg Trail
Motel parking lot to jct. above Ptarmigan Falls/ 2.4 mi.
CLOSED as part of general east side closure due to pandemic. See park web site for map with latest area closure.

Projected Initial Clearing Date: Cleared 6/19/19 per 650 Reminder to practice Leave No Trace and use the pit toilets, pack it in - pack it out.
Jct. above Ptarmigan Falls to Iceberg Lake/ 2.1 mi.
CLOSED as part of general east side closure due to pandemic. See park web site for map with latest area closure.

Projected initial clearing date: 7/17/2020 Iceberg Bridge: Removed Reminder to practice Leave No Trace.
Jct. above Ptarmigan Falls to Ptarmigan Lake/ 1.7 mi.
CLOSED as part of general east side closure due to pandemic. See park web site for map with latest area closure.

Projected initial clearing date: 7/13/2020 per 650

Ptarmigan Lake to Ptarmigan Tunnel/ 0.9 mi.
CLOSED as part of general east side closure due to pandemic. See park web site for map with latest area closure.

Projected initial clearing date: 7/21/2020 per 650 Ptarmigan Tunnel Doors: OPEN 8/2/2020 per 650 Scheduled closing 9/29/2020 per 650
Red Gap Pass Trail (Poia Lake)
Trailhead to foot of Poia Lake/ 6.4 mi.
CLOSED as part of general east side closure due to pandemic. See park web site for map with latest area closure.

Projected Initial Clearing Date: Cleared 6/12/2020 per 650

Poia Lake to Red Gap Pass/ 5.6 mi.
CLOSED as part of general east side closure due to pandemic. See park web site for map with latest area closure.

Projected initial clearing date: CLEARED 7/12/2020 per 650

WARNING! THE FIRST MAJOR CREEK THAT IS CROSSED EAST OF RED GAP PASS HAS EXTREMELY SLIPPERY ROCKS. HIKERS HAVE BEEN KILLED OR SERIOUSLY INJURED ATTEMPTING TO GET WATER FROM THE CREEK AFTER CLIMBING ONTO THE ROCKS BOTH AT THE BRIDGE SITE AND FROM THE SWITCHBACKS BELOW. USE EXTREME CAUTION!!!

Sherburne Ranger Station Cutoff
Red Gap Pass Trail to Sherburne Ranger Station / 1.0 mi.
CLOSED as part of general east side closure due to pandemic. See park web site for map with latest area closure.

Projected initial clearing date: Cleared 6/12/19 per 650

Slide Lake / Gable Pass Trail
Park Boundary to Slide Lake Cpgd./ 1.4 mi.
CLOSED as part of general east side closure due to pandemic. See park web site for map with latest area closure.

Estimated Initial Clearing Date: 8/22/2020 per 650 Chief Mtn Rd (6 miles across Reservation) to Park Boundary is muddy with several dozen head of cattle grazing.

NOTE - A $20.00 Blackfeet Tribal Conservation Permit is required by each person(regardless of age) to recreate on reservation land.

VEHICLES NOT RECOMMENDED!!! This access to the Slide Lake area is by way of an unmarked and unmaintained road across Blackfeet Indian Nation land. This access to the Glacier Park boundary is very muddy, rutted, rocky, and used heavily by cattle. There is one major fork in the road a couple miles in, the left fork that leads down towards Otatso Creek is the way to Slide.

DIRECTIONS: Heading north up Highway 89, turn left onto Chief Mountain Highway 17. Drive 4.3 miles north up Highway 17. Look for a dirt road on the left heading west/southwest and skirting just south of Chief Mountain. If you go by Chief Mtn. Overlook (aka Crusher Hill), a pullout at the top of a hill, you have gone 0.3 miles too far.

Slide Lake Cpgd. to Lee Ridge Jct. via Gable Pass/ 2.5 m
CLOSED as part of general east side closure due to pandemic. See park web site for map with latest area closure.

Projected initial clearing date: 8/22/2020 per 650
Swiftcurrent Lake Nature Trail
Trail around the Swiftcurrent Lake/ 2.6 mi.
CLOSED as part of general east side closure due to pandemic. See park web site for map with latest area closure.

Projected initial clearing date: CLEARED 5/27/2020 per 650

Swiftcurrent Pass Trail
Campstore parking lot to Head of Bullhead Lake / 3.9 mi.
CLOSED as part of general east side closure due to pandemic. See park web site for map with latest area closure.

Projected initial clearing date: CLEARED 6/9/2020 per 650

WINDMAKER SUSPENSION BRIDGE: INSTALLED 6/9/2020 per 650

REMOVED 10/1/2020 per 650

Bullhead Lake to Swiftcurrent Pass / 2.7 mi.
CLOSED as part of general east side closure due to pandemic. See park web site for map with latest area closure.

Projected initial clearing date: 07/19/2020 per 650 SWIFTCURRENT BRIDGE PLANKS: Removed per 650

WINDMAKER SUSPENSION BRIDGE: Scheduled Removal 10/1/2020 per 650

STOCK ADVISORY: Trail between Bullhead Lake and Devil's Elbow is steep, narrow and not recommended for stock. per 650

Trails around Josephine Lake to Grinnell Lake
North Shore Trail to Oastler Shelter / 1.7 mi.
CLOSED as part of general east side closure due to pandemic. See park web site for map with latest area closure.

Projected initial clearing date: CLEARED 5/27/2020 per 650

So.Shore Tr. from Hotel to Oastler Shelter/ 2.0 mi.
CLOSED as part of general east side closure due to pandemic. See park web site for map with latest area closure.

Projected initial clearing date: CLEARED 5/27/2020 per 650
Oastler Shelter to Grinnell Lake (also Hidden Falls) 1.0 mi.
CLOSED as part of general east side closure due to pandemic. See park web site for map with latest area closure.

Projected initial clearing date: Cleared 6/10/2020 per 650

Cataract Creek Suspension Bridge: INSTALLED 6/10/2020

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