Before 1939, the National Park Service referred to the falls as Lincoln Falls flowing towards Lincoln Lake.
Beaver Chief Waterfalls
Caught in an ancient land, Beaver Chief Falls is one of the tallest waterfalls in Montana's Glacier National Park. Also known as Diamond Falls, as waterfalls it splits into two channels then converges before it reaches the floor of the valley, forming a jagged diamond shape in the cliff. Accordingly, when one looks at the falls they can observe a very distinct diamond shape outlined by the water, an unusual occurrence. It seems that the topography of the Cliffside that the falls spill down is such that they actually they diverge about one third of the way down. The two streams fan out while making a wide angle on each side and return to join again by the last third of the waterfall.
Glacier National Park is home to Beaver Chief Falls, a very large waterfall surrounded by world class scenery. It is 1291 feet from the top of the small mountain it flows from to the lake it ends in. Beaver Chief Falls is a tiered waterfall made up of three single-drops and cascades between where the longest single drop happens to be a respectable 517 feet which is a pretty good distance for water to fall. For the Native people, the area was known as the ‘Shining Mountains’ or ‘Backbone of the World.’ The park is well known for its glaciers, carved valleys, and rich vegetation. According to records, the glaciers have been around for 10,000 years.
They say that Beaver Chief is a lazy Sunday waterfall because its water volume is pretty low at only 50 cubic meters per second. This is way so much less compared to the amazing 600,000 cubic feet per second of Boyoma Falls in the Congo. However, in spite of this shortcoming, Beaver Chief has the pleasure of being one of over two hundred waterfalls in the area of the park all of which are fed from creeks and rivers that in turn are fed from a mixture of glacial melt and yearly snow melt.Famous for being the conservator of some of the few glaciers left in North America, the park has many lakes. The lakes in the park are interestingly of color blue. This color is a result from glacial silt in the water and a few of the creeks are a milky white from glacial runoff. The falls are perennial flowing year round though it is much higher in volume during the early spring when all the previous winter’s snow is melting.
It is a reassuring fact that visitors to the park will be glad to know that the area around the falls won’t be too crowded. The falls actually require at minimum a 9 mile (one way) hike to reach. By the time they are reached one feels truly entrenched in the beauty of the wilderness.
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