Two Medicine, Glacier National Park, Montana

Boat Dock at Two Medicine Lake

Twin Falls on the hike to Upper Two Medicine Lake

Ridge at Upper Two Medicine Lake

Upper Two Medicine Lake

1920's Boat on Two Medicine Lake

Glacier National Park is a premier hiking park and a premier fishing park. You can fish anywhere in Glacier without a license. As far as hiking goes, the problem is that most of the trails are more than 4 miles....ONE WAY!!! Since we weren't up for an eight mile hike and Kevin wanted to try his hand at fishing, we decided to take a boat/hike. On several of the lakes, you can cut off several miles of hiking by taking the boat tour down the lake to the the trail head at the other end.

We went on the 2.2 mile hike (one way) from Two Medicine Lake to Upper Two Medicine Lake. The fishing at Upper Two Medicine is the best in the park according to the 80+ year old volunteer ranger we spoke to. Also, Two Medicine is the highest Alpine Lake that a person can drive to so it sounded like a perfect boat ride, hike, picnic, fishing day.

Unfortunately, when we got to Upper Two Glacier, we had to cross snow pack to get to the lake. When we got to the lake, we saw a lot of logs in the lake near the shoreline due to the avalanches from the winter. Although the lake may have been loaded with fish, we could not find a bank to fish on that did not have 10 feet of logs floating in the water next to the shore.

It was still a great hike and Kevin was able to fish a bit from the dock on Two Medicine Lake before the boat returned to pick us up. One thing is for sure is that there a lot of worse places to not catch fish.