Howe Lake and beyond ... Biological diversity abounds on this relatively short journey
Sometimes you do a hike in Glacier National Park for the fun of it and other times they become an exploratory mission. Sunday’s hike on the Howe Lake Fire Trail was the latter. To get to the Howe Lake Fire Trail you simply hike to Howe Lake off Glacier National Park’s Inside North Fork Road and then keep going.
The trail will get quite a bit fainter once you leave Howe Lake proper as it winds up the side of Howe Ridge. Having said that, the views open up quite a bit and while the trail itself is pretty brushy there are plenty of openings to view the peaks surrounding Lake McDonald.
The Howe Lake drainage is a unique one in that it’s burned over in wildfires not once, but twice in the past 21 years. First in 2003’s Robert Fire and then again in the 2018 Howe Ridge Fire.
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