Bewmark Lake Trail

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Bewmark Lake Trail is a less/un-maintained trail. In places there is obvious trail, then sometimes it is less obvious and/or overgrown by willows. Sometimes cairns mark the way and there is no obvious trail. Good route finding skills are needed.

Bewmark Lake Trail is found at the top of a small rise at the 2.8 mile mark along Middle Fork Lake Trail. There is no sign. Look for a string of small cairns on the north side of Middle Fork Lake Trail. Follow these cairns and when they run out, look to your right for more cairns and obvious trail in the distance. This is all in an open rocky, grassy area.

At the quarter mile mark, the trail starts following a small creek (on the right) upstream. Here the trail goes through willows and a few small grassy spots. Leaving the creek behind, the trail continues in a mix of willows and open spots, but less willows.

Still in and out of willows, at the 1.5 mile mark, the trail steepens as it makes a final push for Bewmark Lake. But at what looks like the top where a lake should be, there is no Bewmark Lake. Now with all the willows behind, in rocky, grassy terrain, the trail levels out temporarily, and then makes an ever so gradual climb to finally reveal Bewmark Lake a bit below and not too far away.

There it is, Bewmark Lake sparkling in the alpine meadows and up against barren peaks and walls of the Continental Divide. The trail continues around the south end of the lake to its outlet creek, on a very faint path.

Until the final climb to Bewmark Lake, the vegetation is a mix of rocky, grassy areas at first, that give way to willowy surrounds as the trail runs along creek(s) and climbs slightly. On the final climb, terrain changes to the rocky, grassy alpine meadows that Bewmark Lake is nestled in.