About Shelf Lake
Shelf Lake has its own place in the Glacier Gorge / Bear Lake Corridor landscape: a hard lake at 11,221 feet. It sits on the east side of the Continental Divide.
It sits above Mills Lake in upper Glacier Gorge. Glacier Gorge is one of the park's classic glacial valleys, with lakes stacked from lower forest to upper alpine basin. The useful details are specific and practical: where it sits, how it is reached, and what kind of commitment it asks for.
NPS trail tables show Glacier Gorge as the starting point for Alberta Falls, Mills Lake, Black Lake, The Loch, Sky Pond, and Andrews Glacier, so lakes here often sit on routes that continue well beyond a single shoreline.
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