Grinnell Falls

Grinnell Falls is a waterfall in Glacier National Park, Montana, US. Grinnell Falls have several major drops in its 960 feet descent from Grinnell Glacier with the highest estimated at 280 ft.

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Highlights include Grinnell Glacier and Angel Wing.

Grinnell Glacier

Glacier

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Grinnell Glacier is in the heart of Glacier National Park in the U.S. state of Montana. The glacier is named for George Bird Grinnell, an early American conservationist and explorer, who was also a strong advocate of ensuring the creation of Glacier National Park.

Angel Wing

Peak

Angel Wing is a 7,430-foot elevation mountain summit located in the Lewis Range, of Glacier National Park in the U.S. state of Montana. It is situated one mile east of the Continental Divide, in Glacier County.

Upper Grinnell Lake

Lake

Photo: USGS, Public domain.

Upper Grinnell Lake is located in Glacier National Park, in the U. S. state of Montana. Upper Grinnell Lake is a proglacial lake which formed in the 1930s as Grinnell Glacier retreated.

Grinnell Falls

Type: Waterfall
Description: waterfall in Montana, USA
Category: body of water
Location: Glacier, Montana, Rocky Mountains, United States, North America
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Latitude

48.76272° or 48° 45′ 46″ north

Longitude

-113.72075° or 113° 43′ 15″ west

Elevation

5,764 feet (1,757 metres)

Open location code

85W8Q77H+3P

OpenStreetMap ID

node 963462710

OpenStreetMap feature

waterway=waterfall

GeoNames ID

5655512

Wikidata ID

Q85764621

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Grinnell Lake and Salamander Falls.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Grinnell Falls”. Photo: Kirk Olson, CC BY 2.0.