Rocky Point

This morning we drove to the Rocky Point/Lake McDonald Trail trailhead at Fish Creek to hike part way (about 2 miles) along the Lake McDonald Trail and return via the Rocky Point Trail, overall 4 miles/400 ft gain. Last night the snow level came down to Kalispell, but it was quickly melting as we drove up to Glacier National Park. Some snow on the bridge crossing Fish Creek near the start of the trail.

view of Fish Creek at the bridge

We had a few glimpses of Lake MacDonald along the Lake McDonald Trail (it was mostly forested), we could see the clouds were mostly covering the mountains

About 2 miles up the trail, we found a side trail to the lakeshore and could see the clouds were beginning to lift, a good time to turn back to Rocky Point

Near Rocky oOint

Views as we walked around Rocky Point looking across Lake McDonald

some of the wildflowers we saw along the trail today:

Oxbow Trail

We decided to get one more hike in before the afternoon thundershowers today in Glacier National Park. We did the short 1 mile round trip trail to an Oxbow in the Lower McDonald Creek. Lovely views of Lower McDonald Creek seen along this forested trail.

This view of Lower McDonald Creek was taken from the bridge over the creek on the road near where we parked

some of the wildflowers we saw along this trail today

Johns Lake Loop

We drove to the Upper McDonald Creek Trailhead in Glacier National Park to hike the Johns Lake Loop clockwise (2 miles/200 ft gain)

This is a hike in the forest on a well maintained trail, we saw some fresh bear scat, but no bears.

About 1/2 mie up the trail we saw McDonald Falls

Mountain view seen across Upper McDonald Creek

View of cascade on Upper McDonald Creek from the footbridge over the creek

View looking downstream from the bridge over the creek

Views at Johns Lake on the other side of the loop trail

The last part of our loop was walking along the side of the road to where we began, great views here looking downstream where Upper McDonald Creek enters McDonald Lake

looking upstream at Upper McDonald Creek

view on the bridge looking south to these gorgeous peaks

some of the wildflowers we saw along the trail this morning