Campground · Glacier National Park
A primitive North Fork base camp near the Lower Quartz Lake trail.
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The highest, rockiest slopes around here are a summer buffet for grizzly bears.
Glacier Tour Guide
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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Quartz Creek Campground and Trail“You're nearing Quartz Creek Campground, a small tent-camping stop in mature forest beside the creek.”
Plays as you drive up to Quartz Creek Campground 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
Quartz Creek is Glacier's smallest campground, with seven first-come, first-served sites in mature forest beside a creek. It's a simple North Fork overnight for tent campers, with a trailhead to Lower Quartz Lake at the campground.
There is no potable water, camp store, shower, or cell reception. The campground has seasonal vault toilets, food-storage lockers and trash collection, plus picnic tables and fire rings. Polebridge has limited amenities, so arrive prepared.
The trailhead to Lower Quartz Lake is at the campground. The day hike is 6.2 miles one way, so hiking there and back makes a 12.4-mile round trip.
Wildlife
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.
Keep exploring
ChallengingQuartz Creek Trail13.8 mi · 6 hr · 0.3 mi awayA long forest walk to Lower Quartz Lake and back.
ModerateLogging Lake Trail8.8 mi · 4.5 hr · 2.1 mi awayA gentle forest walk to a remote lake beneath mountain peaks.
ChallengingGrace Lake via Logging Lake Trail24.9 mi · 11.5 hr · 2.1 mi awayA remote 25-mile return through forest to Grace Lake
EasyHidden Meadow Trail3 mi · 1.6 hr · 2.1 mi awayA young forest walk that opens at a homestead pond.
EasyCovey Meadow Loop Trail1.6 mi · 45 min · 4.5 mi awayA short meadow loop with Livingston Range views and homestead history.
Campground · 2.2 mi awayLogging Creek CampgroundSeven primitive creekside sites near the Logging Lake trail.
Store · 4 mi awayPolebridge Mercantile & BakeryA 1914 North Fork mercantile with huckleberry bear claws.
Ranger station · 4.9 mi awayPolebridge Ranger StationRanger advice and boat checks before you head into the North Fork.Parkwolf’s Glacier ranking
The audio tour guide for the drive, plus offline maps, trails, and wildlife heatmaps for when the signal drops.
