Grinnell Lake is located in
Glacier National Park, in the
U. S. state
In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50. Bound together in a political union, each state holds governmental jurisdiction over a separate and defined geographic territory where it shares its sove ...
of
Montana
Montana () is a state in the Mountain West division of the Western United States. It is bordered by Idaho to the west, North Dakota and South Dakota to the east, Wyoming to the south, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columb ...
. Named after
George Bird Grinnell
George Bird Grinnell (September 20, 1849 – April 11, 1938) was an American anthropologist, historian, naturalist, and writer. Grinnell was born in Brooklyn, New York, and graduated from Yale University with a B.A. in 1870 and a Ph.D. in 1880. ...
, the lake has an opaque turquoise appearance from the
rock flour
Rock flour, or glacial flour, consists of fine-grained, silt-sized particles of rock, generated by mechanical grinding of bedrock by glacial erosion or by artificial grinding to a similar size. Because the material is very small, it becomes suspe ...
(silt) which is transported to the lake from
Grinnell Glacier
Grinnell Glacier is in the heart of Glacier National Park in the U.S. state of Montana. The glacier is named for George Bird Grinnell, an early American conservationist and explorer, who was also a strong advocate of ensuring the creation of Glac ...
.
[ Grinnell Lake is accessible via the Grinnell Glacier Trail and is from the ]Many Glacier Hotel
Many Glacier Hotel is a historic hotel located on the east shore of Swiftcurrent Lake in Glacier National Park in the U.S. state of Montana. The building is designed as a series of chalets, up to four stories tall, and stretches for a substantia ...
.[ It lies below the north face of Angel Wing.
]
Gallery
File:The national parks portfolio (1921) (14582296400).jpg, Photo by Robert Sterling Yard
Robert Sterling Yard (February 1, 1861 – May 17, 1945) was an American writer, journalist, and wilderness activist. Born in Haverstraw, New York, Yard graduated from Princeton University and spent the first twenty years of his career in the ed ...
File:GrinnellLakeMountGrinnell-s01.jpg, Mount Grinnell above Grinnell Lake
See also
*List of lakes in Glacier County, Montana
There are at least 118 named lakes and reservoirs in Glacier County, Montana.
Lakes
* Alkali Lake, , el.
* Allison Lake, , el.
* Atsina Lake, , el.
* Aubery Lake, , el.
* Bench Lake, , el.
* Big Spring Lake, , el.
* Boundary Lake, ...
References
Lakes of Glacier National Park (U.S.)
Lakes of Glacier County, Montana
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