Highway Logs: Prince of Wales Hotel to Many Glacier Hotel
Prince of Wales Hotel to Many Glacier Hotel
.0 PRINCE OF WALES HOTEL (4250) Capacity 140 guests.
.4 L JUNCTION TO WATERTON VILLAGE (1 mile)
.6 R LINNET LAKE Used for swimming.
1.7 L JUNCTION TO GOLF COURSE
2.1 BLAKISTON BROOK
2.2 L JUNCTION TO RED ROCK CANYON (9 miles)
3.6 R GRAVE OF "KOOTENAI" BROWN On the shore of Lower Waterton Lake are the graves of John George "Kootenai" Brown and his two wives. Arriving in 1868, Brown was the first white settler in the Waterton region. He was a colorful western figure.
4.0 R LOWER WATERTON LAKE (4189) Waterton Lakes were named by Lieut. Blakiston for Chas. Waterton, an English naturalist and traveler.
5.0 L RANGER STATION
5.4 L CHECKING STATION
5.5 WATERTON RIVER Flows through the Saskatchewan River, Lake Winnipeg and the Nelson River into Hudson Bay.
5.8 R MASKINONGE LAKE The Indian name for the large species of pike found in this lake.
6.0 L JUNCTION TO CARDSTON--27 miles.
6.6 to 9.1 QUAKING ASPEN FOREST, 2-1/2 miles long.
10.5 R PANORAMA OF WATERTON VALLEY The principal peaks in view are Mt. Alderson (8883), Cameronian Mountain (8499) and Mt. Blakiston (9600). Mt. Alderson is named for Lieutenant General Alderson who commanded the Canadian Expeditionary Forces in France, 1915-16. Mt. Blakiston, the highest mountain in Waterton Park, was named for Lieut. Blakiston of the famous Palliser Expedition, who in 1858 made the first recorded visit to the region. The Prince of Wales Hotel can be seen from this point.
11.1 R SOFA MOUNTAIN (8268)
11.6 R BEAVER DAM AND HUT
R FIRST VIEW OF CHIEF MOUNTAIN (9056)
15.5 R BELLY RIVER RANGER STATION This is occupied by a park "warden", who is the resident protective officer in a Canadian Park.
16.6 BELLY RIVER Flows through the Saskatchewan River, Lake Winnipeg and the Nelson River into Hudson Bay.
20.5 L CANADIAN CUSTOMS AND IMMIGRATION Chief Mountain, Alberta.
R MT. MERRITT (9944)
INTERNATIONAL AND GLACIER NATIONAL PARK BOUNDARIES Leaving Waterton Lakes National Park, Alberta, Canada. (Canadian Section, Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park.) The boundary is marked by a twenty-foot swath through the trees. This cut is present in all wooded areas over the entire length of the International Boundary.
20.6 R U. S. CUSTOMS AND IMMIGRATION Chief Mountain, Montana.
21.5 A VIEW OF CHIEF MOUNTAIN
22.6 LEE CREEK
24.2 BOUNDARY BETWEEN GLACIER NATIONAL PARK AND BLACKFEET INDIAN RESERVATION
26.6 R EAST FACE VIEW OF CHIEF MOUNTAIN On this face of Chief Mountain the effects of the Lewis Overthrust can be clearly seen. The old pre-Cambrian rocks can be seen resting on the younger Cretaceous rock of the plains. The line of division lies just above the talus slopes.
In 1891, Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of State under President Hoover, with two companions climbed this east face of Chief Mountain. According to Blackfeet legend, the mountain had been previously climbed many, many years before by a young Flathead Chief seeking a sacred spirit. Stimson was told that this young Flathead, using a sacred bison skull as a pillow, had spent four days and nights upon the very top of Chief Mountain. When Stimson, himself, reached the summit, he reported that he found anchored there an old weather-beaten bison skull.
32.7 R YELLOW MOUNTAIN AND SHERBURNE PEAK (8500)
34.9 L JUNCTION TO CARDSTON, ALBERTA, CANADA
35.0 KENNEDY CREEK Flows into the St. Mary River. Named for an old trader who traded with the Blackfeet Indians.
36.2 L MILK RIVER IRRIGATION PROJECT The water in this canal has been diverted from the St. Mary River and flows to a point about 8 miles below Babb where it is carried in tubes over the St. Mary River and over the Hudson Bay Divide into the Milk River. This water is used in eastern Montana. This is a Reclamation Project, of which the Sherburne Reservoir is a part, being instigated prior to the establishment of Glacier National Park.
39.3 BABB JUNCTION Junction of Many Glacier Road with Blackfeet Highway.
40.8 L SWIFTCURRENT CREEK Flows into St. Mary River. An Indian name.
R DEVIL'S SLIDE RODEO GROUNDS Rodeos are held here in summer by Blackfeet.
41.1 L BOULDER CREEK
41.3 L TIMBER BURNED IN 1933 This fire was caused by a shepherd (locally: "sheep-herder") who was herding sheep up Boulder Canyon, and who let his campfire get away during high fire hazard.
44.0 L RECLAMATION DAM A part of the Milk River Irrigation Project.
R RECLAMATION CAMP
44.1 L SHERBURNE LAKE Before the dam was built there were two natural lakes in the valley, and most of the valley floor was covered by heavy timber.
PARK BOUNDARY Leaving Blackfeet Indian Reservation.
46.4 A GRINNELL GLACIER Named for George Bird Grinnell. The glacier consists of two parts separated by a cliff several hundred feet high. The lower part, or main glacier, covers about one square mile and is about 3/4 of a mile in length. It may be 200 or more feet thick in places.
A THE GARDEN WALL WITH DIORITE BAND Named for the song "Over the Garden Wall". The diorite band is an igneous rock intruded between layers of limestone. Limestone above and below the diorite has been metamorphosed or changed into marble by the heat of the intruding rock.
A VIEW OF SWIFTCURRENT AND JOSEPHINE VALLEYS Mountains (L. to R.): Wynn (8300), Allen (9355), Gould (9541), Grinnell (8838), Altyn (7900), and Appekunny (9053). Appekunny (Spotted Robe) is the Indian name of James Willard Schultz, the well-known author of Blackfeet stories.
46.8 CHECKING STATION
48.0 L CRACKER CANYON AND MT. SIYEH (10,004)
L ILLUSTRATION OF LEWIS OVERTHRUST ON MT. WYNN The cliff on the north side of Mt. Siyeh is one of the highest in the park, about 4100 feet. The eastern face of Mt. Wynn is the front of the Lewis Overthrust. The older rocks which make up the bulk of Mt. Wynn have been pushed over the younger rocks which form its base. The dip of the Overthrust is clearly seen in the strata on Mt. Wynn and the diorite band on Mt. Siyeh.
49.8 R APPEKUNNY CIRQUE
49.9 APPEKUNNY CREEK
50.1 R GRAVE OF ALTYN WOMAN Stones surround the grave of a woman who died in the old mining town of Altyn. Altyn, a boom mining town of the late 90's, was located at the base of Mt. Wynn. At one time the town had a population of 200 people. The copper mines located near Cracker Lake did not prove to be of commercial value.
50.5 L PARK SADDLE HORSE CORRAL AND BUNK HOUSE
50.7 A SWIFTCURRENT FALLS The ledge of rock over which the stream plunges is the lowest or oldest formation in the mountains of the park. The Lewis Overthrust fault is just below this ledge.
50.8 A MOUNTAINS (L. to R.): Swiftcurrent (8300), Wilbur (9293), Ptarmigan Wall, and Henkel (8700).
50.9 JUNCTION TO CAMPGROUNDS
R SWIFTCURRENT LAKE (4861) This occupies a basin scooped by glacial action out of the Altyn limestone whose dip is to the southwest. Formerly the lake was much larger, and the falls were higher, but as the stream cut back into the rim of the basin, it left dry the tilted ledge on which the hotel stands today.
51.0 R WATER GAGE STATION
51.2 R MANY GLACIER HOTEL (4880) Capacity 375 guests.
