{"id":4521,"date":"2018-07-26T17:00:03","date_gmt":"2018-07-27T00:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/?p=4521"},"modified":"2018-07-24T20:55:36","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T03:55:36","slug":"hungry-horse-dam-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cowlesmountain.com\/Travels\/2018\/07\/26\/hungry-horse-dam-surprise\/","title":{"rendered":"Hungry Horse Dam “Surprise”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>On Sunday we were going to drive into Kalispell to check it out.\u00a0\u00a0 We had noticed a sign on the way into West Glacier for Hungry Horse Dam.\u00a0\u00a0 I assumed it was going to be a small, probably earthen structure, but figured it may be a nice place to visit; so on the way down the mountain, we hung a left onto the road that leads there.<\/p>\n

After driving a few miles, we came to a large lake with two picnic areas and assumed it was part of the water behind the dam.\u00a0\u00a0 It wasn’t, and \"\"<\/a>we kept driving a few more miles when we came around a corner to see a huge concrete dam looking a lot like Hoover Dam.\u00a0\u00a0 It was a really big arch style dam like Hoover, but a couple hundred feet shorter in height, but much longer in length.\u00a0\u00a0 And the most interesting part,\u00a0 you could still drive or walk across the top.\u00a0\u00a0 I haven’t seen that since 9\/11 !\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There were no tours of this dam, bummer.\u00a0 But it is a hydroelectric generating station.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I started walking over the top of the dam and noticed it had a huge glory hole type spillway \"\"<\/a>only 20 or so feet from the road at the northwest corner of the dam.\u00a0\u00a0 It looked really large, and there wasn’t any other spillway to divert water when too much was getting into the lake and the turbines can’t let enough out to lower the level.\u00a0\u00a0 Turns out its 64′ in diameter.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 That’s probably big enough to keep the water from going over the top of the dam.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>We also drove over the dam and down a road that got narrower as we moved further from the dam.\u00a0\u00a0 It’s a really big lake, but we only saw one lone boat on the water we were able to view.<\/p>\n

We turned around at a small turnout and headed back over the dam and on to Kalispell.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>We drove around Kalispell for a bit.\u00a0 There were some beautiful tree-lined streets south of the highway.\u00a0 They had a full canopy covering the whole street and sidewalks for many blocks.\u00a0 \u00a0We also noticed many other streets looked similar.\u00a0\u00a0 But there wasn’t much else to see in the town and we headed back to west glacier.\"\"<\/a> \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Sunday we were going to drive into Kalispell to check it out.\u00a0\u00a0 We had noticed a sign on the way into West Glacier for Hungry Horse Dam.\u00a0\u00a0 I assumed it was going to be a small, probably earthen structure, but figured it may be a nice place to visit; so on the way down … <\/p>\n

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