Western National Parks - Mount Rainier 2011 - January Photo

LAKE MCDONALD

Deep blue water, contrasted by freshly snow-capped peaks, provides a strikingly beautiful winter scene of Lake McDonald. Originally called "Sacred Dancing Lake," by Blackfeet Indians, this lake possesses an inspirational aura.

"I have seen maybe a thousand northern lakes...but there was something different...I sat there perhaps half an hour, like a man under a spell..."

-- John J. Rowland