Glen Lake Rotary Park

🏊Swimming at Glen Lake Rotary Park

Swimming happens in Glen Lake itself, a small former gravel-pit pond fitted with a purpose-built sand beach ('Bozeman Beach') and a diving/fishing dock. The setting is geared toward families and casual swimmers, with beach volleyball, picnic areas, and space for paddleboarding alongside swimming; the city has also hosted organized swim races and triathlons on the lake.

📍How to get to this swimming hole

Located at 830 Manley Road, Bozeman, MT, about 2 miles from downtown. The main parking lot sits off Manley Road on the east side of Glen Lake; a paved southeast entrance and additional parking area opened in August 2024.

Parking: Paved parking lot off Manley Road with accessible spaces and curb cuts; a second paved southeast entrance/parking area opened August 16, 2024.

📜Backstory

The site was originally a gravel pit and city dump; volunteers under the East Gallatin Recreation Area Task Force began reclaiming it in the 1980s-90s, and the Rotary Club of Bozeman Sunrise (chartered 1992) adopted it as a signature project. In December 2018, Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks granted the City of Bozeman a 50-year lease, and the park was renamed Glen Lake Rotary Park in 2019 in recognition of the Rotary Club's decades of volunteer work. The lake itself is named for Glen Hash, whose family had sold the land to the state.