Parking
Begin at North Shore Trailhead near Two Medicine Campground. Parking capacity and fees were not verified.
Overview
About No Name Lake Trail
Why go
- A vivid lake beneath steep mountain walls.
Heads up
- Nearly ten miles of walking for a compact lakeside stop.
Map & elevation
The route
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Full mapElevation5,180–5,994 ft
Plan your hike
Before you go
Parking
Safety
1 active Glacier alert
- ClosureTwo Medicine Campground closed for 2026 constructionMentions Two Medicine Campground, referenced in this guideTwo Medicine Campground is closed throughout 2026 because of construction in the Two Medicine developed area.Official details
The highest, rockiest slopes around here are a summer buffet for grizzly bears.
Glacier Tour Guide
Your drive to No Name Lake Trail, 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.
See the Glacier audio tourRecorded for this trailhead
Two Medicine North Shore and Twin Falls0:00 / 0:26
“You're nearing Two Medicine's North Shore Trailhead, where Twin Falls makes a gentle but fairly long waterfall walk. Allow about four hours for seven miles round trip to the two cascades below Pumpelly Pillar.”
Plays as you drive up to this trailhead in the Parkwolf Glacier Tour Guide.
More stories near here in the app
- Scenic Point and Appistoki Falls
- Two Medicine Lake and South Shore
- Running Eagle Falls
- Two Medicine on the Radio
- 204 audio storiesacross Glacier’s roads, triggered by GPS as you drive
- Wildlife heatmapsfor Grizzly Bear, Wolverine, Mountain Goat, and 13 more
- 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.”
Trail guide
Hiking No Name Lake Trail
A long return hikeNo Name Lake Trail is a 9.
No Name Lake Trail is a 9.8-mile out-and-back from North Shore Trailhead to a small backcountry lake. The listed approach gains about 800 feet; allow roughly five to six hours with a stop at the water. If that is too long, a paid boat to Two Medicine Lake’s west dock makes a separate 5.4-mile round trip, and that shorter distance assumes the boat ride.
The climbFrom the North Shore approach, the route heads west beside Two Medicine Lake before turning…
From the North Shore approach, the route heads west beside Two Medicine Lake before turning onto the Dawson Pass trail corridor. It climbs more noticeably through huckleberry patches and short switchbacks, then eases near the No Name Lake junction. Take the short spur to the shore. The route climbs back the same way on the return.
At the lakeNo Name Lake sits below steep mountain walls, with a small beach on its northwest shore and a…
No Name Lake sits below steep mountain walls, with a small beach on its northwest shore and a backcountry campground just beyond. The lake’s aqua-green water and the close rock face are the payoff after the long walk; the beach is a compact place to stop. From the shore, keep the near water in the frame to catch reflections beneath the mountain.
A name from an 1883 crossingPumpelly Pillar, the cone-shaped rock above the lake, was named for Raphael Pumpelly, who led a…
Pumpelly Pillar, the cone-shaped rock above the lake, was named for Raphael Pumpelly, who led a Northern Transcontinental Railway Survey party across Pitamakan Pass in 1883. The surrounding rock was shaped by glaciation.
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.
