Flathead Lake Montana| Biggest Natural Fresh Water Lake West Of The Mississippi River

The last three days we spent in Glacier National Park. Make sure to check out our three previous videos to check out our adventures here. Day 14 we woke up in Apgar village. It sits right on Lake McDonald on the west side of Glacier National Park where my husband captured these beautiful sunrise pictures. We have one more thing to do in Montana before we head into Idaho and that is visit Flathead Lake. This is the largest natural freshwater lake west of the Mississippi River in the lower 48. It has over 200 square miles of surface area, over 27 miles long and it's 15 miles wide and the max depth is 370 feet. There are many access points on this lake. There are six state parks that sit on this lake along with Flathead Lake National Forest which that's where we went to. We went to Flathead Lake Interpretive Trail number 77 located in the National Forest. This is a four tenths of a mile loop trail that takes you from the parking lot up high down to the lake. This hike said it was steep but it had switchbacks so it wasn't too hard. It also had these numbers on it which you're supposed to get a pamphlet up at the top where you started the trail but there was no pamphlets in it when we were there so we don't know what these numbers meant. Made it down to the lake. You know I'm sticking the GoPro in it since we made it down to the lake. Since this is a loop trail hiking up was a different way than hiking down so I think though hiking up had more beautiful views of the lake than hiking down. What is also neat about this area is the cherry farms on all the private land that is right on the lake. Almost all of them were cherry farms. We weren't there during cherry season unfortunately so we weren't able to buy any cherries but if you type in cherry farms on Flathead Lake look at all of them that come up. There's so many on here. Thank you so much for watching. Don't forget to hit the like button and subscribe. You're gonna want to stay tuned. We finally make it to Idaho where we visit the moon. What? We visit a city of rocks? What? You're not gonna want to miss it. Until next time adventures are out there. Are you? Have a blessed day. Thank you. Bye!