Hungry Horse Reservoir with Glacier peaks
— — a long blue arm pointing at Glacier.
Not only on a wall.
“A 34-mile reservoir on the South Fork of the Flathead River, held back by Hungry Horse Dam since 1953. The lake runs south through the Flathead National Forest, with the peaks of Glacier National Park rising off the north end and the Bob Marshall Wilderness closing in to the east. A forest road circles the whole reservoir, about 110 miles around. The water is cold and very deep, and on a still morning it holds the mountains twice. from the studio
Hungry Horse Reservoir with Glacier peaks, on ceramic.
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Hungry Horse Reservoir lies in the Flathead National Forest in northwestern Montana, immediately south of Glacier National Park. It was formed in 1953 when the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation closed Hungry Horse Dam, then the fourth-largest concrete dam in the world, on the South Fork of the Flathead River. The reservoir is about 34 miles long, holds roughly 3.5 million acre-feet of water at full pool, and sits at around 3,560 feet of elevation. Access is from U.S. Highway 2 at the town of Hungry Horse, just west of West Glacier.
The South Fork of the Flathead runs out of the Bob Marshall Wilderness, and the reservoir collects nearly all of that drainage before releasing it through the dam. The water is glacially cold even in August and very deep — over 500 feet near the dam at full pool. The reservoir holds native westslope cutthroat trout and bull trout, both protected species in the Flathead system, along with non-native lake trout. Most boaters launch from Lost Johnny or Lakeview, both on the west shore.
Forest Service Road 895 / 38 circles the reservoir for about 110 miles, mostly gravel, and takes a full day to drive. There are more than a dozen primitive and developed campgrounds spaced along both shores, with Lakeview, Lost Johnny Point, and Spotted Bear among the most used. Spotted Bear, at the far south end, is also the main trailhead for pack-string trips into the Bob Marshall Wilderness. Glacier National Park's southwest boundary sits about ten miles north of the dam, and the Park's peaks rise above the reservoir on a clear day.