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Overview
About Lunch Creek
Why stop
- Wildflowers add color around the creek in summer.
- Bighorn sheep are sometimes seen nearby.
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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 Lunch Creek, 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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“You're coming up on Lunch Creek, where water tumbles down natural rock steps below Pollock Mountain. I'd stop for a few minutes to enjoy the cascade, stone arch bridge and summer wildflowers.”
Plays as you drive up to Lunch Creek in the Parkwolf Glacier Tour Guide.
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“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.”
Guide
More about Lunch Creek
A creek beside the roadLunch Creek is a small roadside cascade on Going-to-the-Sun Road below Pollock Mountain.
Lunch Creek is a small roadside cascade on Going-to-the-Sun Road below Pollock Mountain. In summer, the water runs down a natural staircase of rock, with the high basin rising behind it. When the road is open, it is a worthwhile short pause; the creek is the draw, not a sweeping valley overlook.
Look at the rock stepsThe stream, stone arch bridge and rugged mountain basin make this a compact, distinctive scene.
The stream, stone arch bridge and rugged mountain basin make this a compact, distinctive scene. Wildflowers surround the creek in summer. For a photo, frame the bridge and water with Pollock Mountain above them to show both the cascade and its setting.
Why the name fitsThe creek was named for its popularity as a lunch stop for early park visitors.
The creek was named for its popularity as a lunch stop for early park visitors. That history suits the stop today: it is a natural break in a long scenic drive rather than a place to plan a full outing around.
Keep an eye out for bighornsBighorn sheep are sometimes seen around the creek.
Bighorn sheep are sometimes seen around the creek. They are a possible wildlife bonus, not a guaranteed sighting. The cascade is still a worthwhile reason to pause even when the sheep are not there.
A roadside stopAuto parking is available at the site, but neither its capacity nor a maintained foot route is…
Auto parking is available at the site, but neither its capacity nor a maintained foot route is documented. Keep clear of the travel lane when viewing the creek.
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.
