City Beach at Whitefish Lake. You can see the Big Mountain (now called Whitefish Mountain I think) ski runs. There are hiking and biking trails up there as well. You can take the gondola up to the top. It's awesome! A few adventurous Whitefish folks had been bitten by the downhill skiing “bug” in the 1930s and ‘40s, and began hiking to the upper reaches of Hellroaring Mountain so they could ski back down an open slope into the Hellroaring Basin. In 1947, the first lift was built at what became Big Mountain Ski Area, these days known as Whitefish Mountain Resort, the cornerstone of our area’s winter tourist trade.

The Lake is 232 feet deep max, 109 avg. Shoreline is almost 16 miles. Surface area is around 3300 acres.

Whitefish Lake Geologic History
If you were standing here 12,000 years ago, you would have been buried below an advancing glacier nearly 3,000 feet deep. Originating in Canada, this "Stillwater Glacier" flowed south-southeast into the Flathead Valley..