About Solitude Lake
The Glacier Gorge / Bear Lake Corridor setting gives Solitude Lake its frame: a hard lake, 11,408 feet high, and positioned on the east side of the Continental Divide.
The listed approach is 5.0 miles one-way from Glacier Gorge TH, but this should be treated as a route-finding objective rather than a simple maintained-trail hike. It is an off-trail objective, and the setting is upper Glacier Gorge. In this area, glacier Gorge is one of the park's classic glacial valleys, with lakes stacked from lower forest to upper alpine basin.
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.
