Hyalite Reservoir Gallatin
— — Bozeman's high quiet, twenty minutes from town.
Not only on a wall.
“A small reservoir at about 6,700 feet in Hyalite Canyon, on the Custer Gallatin National Forest, twenty miles south of Bozeman. Hyalite Peak rises above the south end, and a ring of granite ridges closes the canyon in from every side. The lake is the town's water supply and its closest mountain. People come up from Bozeman to paddle in the morning, hike to the waterfalls above the reservoir, and stay for the light on the cirque before dark. from the studio
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Hyalite Reservoir sits in Hyalite Canyon in the Gallatin Range, about 20 miles south of Bozeman, Montana, on the Custer Gallatin National Forest. The dam was completed in 1950 and raised in the 1990s to its current capacity; the reservoir provides the principal municipal water supply for the City of Bozeman. The lake sits at roughly 6,700 feet of elevation. Access is from Hyalite Canyon Road, paved most of the way from town, which makes it the most used recreation area on the Custer Gallatin.
Hyalite Creek and the East Fork feed the reservoir from the high country to the south, and the trail along Hyalite Creek above the lake passes a chain of waterfalls — eleven of them named, with Grotto Falls the most-walked. The Grotto Falls trail is about 2.4 miles round trip from the trailhead above the reservoir. The water itself is cold year-round and supports rainbow, brook, and cutthroat trout. Non-motorised boats and small electric motors are allowed; the surface is usually still in the morning before canyon wind picks up.
Hyalite is the most-visited recreation area on the Custer Gallatin, with two developed campgrounds — Hood Creek and Langohr — and day-use sites around the reservoir. The canyon is open year-round; in winter it becomes one of the busiest ice-climbing destinations in the country, with more than 250 named routes on the canyon walls above the lake. The road past the reservoir is gated seasonally for snow. The drive from downtown Bozeman is about 35 minutes, which makes Hyalite the closest true alpine country to town.