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Overview
About Apgar Picnic Area
Why stop
- Picnic tables sit beside the lake
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Where it is
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Before you go
The highest, rockiest slopes around here are a summer buffet for grizzly bears.
Glacier Tour Guide
Your drive to Apgar Picnic Area, narrated.
Parkwolf is a GPS audio tour guide for Glacier National Park. As you drive, it chimes in with what’s ahead: hidden gems, upcoming stops, history, geology, and wildlife, right through your car’s speakers.
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Apgar Visitor Center0:00 / 0:31
“Up ahead is Apgar Visitor Center, a useful stop if you want help choosing a route or plan to use the park shuttle. Rangers and volunteers can help with maps and trip questions, and there’s a bookstore for park guides.”
Plays on the road 0.6 mi from Apgar Picnic Area in the Parkwolf Glacier Tour Guide.
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- 204 audio storiesacross Glacier’s roads, triggered by GPS as you drive
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- Works offlinemaps, 157 trails, 91 places, and audio download before you lose signal
- CarPlay readysimple controls built for the drive
“Our first time to glacier and we used the audio portion for Going to the Sun Road. Wonderful information with perfect advice of what to see and do along the road.”
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More about Apgar Picnic Area
A break beside Lake McDonaldApgar Picnic Area is a developed day-use picnic site on Lake McDonald’s south shore, in the…
Apgar Picnic Area is a developed day-use picnic site on Lake McDonald’s south shore, in the park’s west entrance area. It’s a useful place to stop for a meal or a breather, with picnic tables beneath trees and the lake right beside them. Treat it as a practical lakeside pause rather than a major attraction in its own right.
Take in the shorelineThe draw is the open water with forested mountain layers across the lake.
The draw is the open water with forested mountain layers across the lake. If you have time, head down toward the shore after eating. For photos, keep a strip of pebble beach or the framing trees in the picture; they give the water and distant mountains more depth.
Know what’s separateApgar Picnic Area is distinct from Apgar Village, the campground, and the visitor center,…
Apgar Picnic Area is distinct from Apgar Village, the campground, and the visitor center, though they’re all in the same developed area. If you need restrooms or drinking water, the nearby Apgar Visitor Center is a separate facility; those services aren’t confirmed at the picnic area.
Wildlife
Wildlife in Glacier
404 sightingsGrizzly BearMost seen around 6 AMSighting map
11 sightingsWolverineMost seen around 8 PMSighting map
1,173 sightingsMountain GoatMost seen around 6 AMSighting map
1,000 sightingsBighorn SheepMost seen around 6 AMSighting map
395 sightingsMooseMost seen around 6 AMSighting map
506 sightingsBlack BearMost seen around 8 PMSighting mapSighting maps show where each species has been reported across Glacier. Wildlife moves, so no sighting is guaranteed.
