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Echo Lake Café 
Contribute your own comments and rating Echo Lake Café serves wholesome food with exceptional views of the Swan Mountain Range. Join the Swan Rangers here for breakfast before the hiking club’s Saturday outings by boot, snowshoe, or ski.
The Swan Rangers hiking club meets at the Café every Saturday morning for breakfast and a partial day outing of hiking, snowshoeing or cross-country skiing in the nearby Swan Range. The outings are documented along with photos and educational information about the Swan Range at www.swanrange.org.
This collaboration between business and recreation is aimed to foster an appreciation of nature and a commitment to its long-term stewardship.
Here are the year-round Saturday meeting times for the Swan Rangers:
May 1 - October 31: 7:30 Breakfast and 8:30 Departure
November 1 - April 30: 8:30 Breakfast and 9:30 Departure
6:30 am - 2:30 pm, 7 days a week
Year round
I am a local Bigfork Guy. Visitors to the area often ask me where to go and what to do in the Flathead Valley. I make sure they are going to Glacier Park on a hike and then I let them know that it is mandatory that they have breakfast at the Echo Lake Café.
The coffee is organic, the orange juice is fresh squeezed and the produce is locally organically grown. The owners even raze the beef on their property down the street.
I think that I have had everything on the menu over the last 10 years, but my favorite is the Echo Lake Crêpes. I could eat that every day for the rest of my life if I had the money.
They have a new website www.echolakecafe.com that has photos of the food and restaurant. It even has unedited comments from the customers.
If you have one thing to do in Montana… Go to Glacier Park, but if you can squeeze in two things… Go to Echo Lake Café as well.
Submitted by Scott Moore (10/28/2008)