Berg Lake, Glacial lake in Mount Robson Provincial Park, Canada
Berg Lake is a glacial lake in Mount Robson Provincial Park, British Columbia, sitting beneath the north face of Mount Robson at around 5,400 feet (1,641 meters) above sea level. The water has a pale turquoise color fed by glacial melt and mountain streams, with steep rocky slopes rising on all sides.
The lake was first called Iceberg Lake, later shortened to Berg. Mount Robson Provincial Park, created in 1913, is one of British Columbia's oldest provincial parks. The 19 km Berg Lake Trail from the parking lot climbs past Kinney Lake, the Valley of a Thousand Falls and Emperor Falls before reaching the shore.
The lake takes its name from the Berg Glacier, which hangs directly above the water and regularly drops ice into it. Visitors standing on the shore can hear the loud crack of calving ice breaking off the glacier face.
The marked trail to Berg Lake runs 19 km one way from the parking lot, climbing over 500 m in 5 km on switchbacks past White Falls, Falls-of-the-Pool and Emperor Falls. Campgrounds at Kinney Lake, Whitehorn, Emperor, Marmot, Berg Lake, Rearguard and Robson Pass allow staging the hike. The Kinney Lake flats are not recommended in early summer because of high water.
Actual icebergs float on the lake during summer, shed by the Berg Glacier as it calves directly into the water from above. This makes Berg Lake one of the very few places in the Rocky Mountains where you can watch floating ice from a lakeside trail.
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