Highline Trail/ Garden Wall Glacier National Park

This is a trail located at the highest elevation in Glacier National Park. It begins at Logan Pass parking lot. You need to get there early (before 10) as the parking fills up all day. There was some snow as we started up.  The Highline Trail runs along the Continental Divide for almost 20 miles from Logan Pass to the campground at Granite Park. We hiked as far as Haystack Butte.

This trail is also called the Garden Wall because of the beautiful green plant life and flowers along the way.

There was still quite a bit of snow along the way. We crossed 5 snowfields. The Logan Pass itself only opened on July 7.

There were spectacular views as we looked back along the trail.

Some of the trail had quite steep drop-offs. Here they had a handrail for balance. It was clever that they covered the wire with a garden hose for grip.

We saw several Marmots along the way.

Bear grass bordered the trails.

Crossing one of the snowfields. We used our microspikes several times and glad to have our poles.

At about 3.6 miles the only real climb of the hike up to Haystack Pass. Can you find the waterfall here above  the people crossing the trail? Elevation is 7024 ft at this point.

We met up with some mountain goats following us on the trail. Total hike was 7.2 miles to Haystack. You can continue onto the Loop which takes you to a shuttle stop at going to the sun road to make it a one way hike.