With one million acres of rugged, northwestern Montana wilderness to explore, a trip to Glacier National Park could fill up an entire summer and more. But let"s just take one day and virtually visit Grinnell Lake. A 7-mile loop trail, a relatively easy one in this mountain wilderness, takes you to the shores of the lake turned emerald green by glacial silt. Grinnell Lake—as well as Mount Grinnell and Grinnell Glacier—is named for the naturalist George Bird Grinnell. For two decades, he lobbied for federal protection of these lands, and on May 11, 1910, the "Crown of the Continent," as Grinnell dubbed the area, became the nation"s 10th national park.
The Crown of the Continent
Today in History
More Desktop Wallpapers:
-
In the Red Sea for World Dolphin Day
-
Least chipmunk, Kootenai National Forest, Montana
-
The tortoise and the finch
-
A path lain with petals
-
A memorial in Germany
-
Bobbing for crab apples
-
Halfway Day
-
The Door County Coastal Byway in Wisconsin
-
Shining like Klondike gold
-
Observing a squirrelly day
-
Glenfinnan Viaduct
-
Old Rock Day
-
Watson Lake in Granite Dells, Arizona
-
The Vestibule at Diocletian s Palace, Split, Croatia
-
Celestial Spain
-
Aït Benhaddou, Morocco
-
Red skies at Ruby Beach
-
A special day for a special cat
-
Celebrate International Women’s Day
-
Life goes on at the Beatles Ashram
-
A black heron canopy feeding in Botswana
-
Independence Day
-
World Teachers Day
-
Life carries on, rising from a ship s skeleton
-
A delta in the Venetian Lagoon, Italy
-
Red-leaf hunting in Japan
-
World Lizard Day
-
Join us in celebrating World Water Day
-
National Fossil Day
-
Buddha in the roots of a tree, Ayutthaya, Thailand
Bing Wallpaper Gallery

