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Going-to-the-Sun Road is a scenic mountain road in the Rocky Mountains of the western United States, in Glacier National Park in Montana.The Sun Road, as it is sometimes abbreviated in National Park Service documents, is the only road that traverses the park, crossing the Continental Divide through Logan Pass at an elevation of 6,646 feet (2,026 m), which is the highest point on the road. [3]
The route has remained mostly unchanged from its original routing, except to expand lanes or straighten and widen some narrow sections. The most notable reroutings from the original corridor are: 1) the section from Moyie Springs, Idaho, to just inside the Montana border, which once ran much further north, as seen on the 1937 map of the area [3] (Old US 2N intersects today's US 2 about 2.6 ...
Western side of Going-to-the-Sun Road in Glacier National Park 48°37′25″N 113°52′16″W / 48.6237°N 113.8711°W / 48.6237; -113.8711 ( Greve's Tourist Lake McDonald
Going-to-the-Sun Road's July 13 opening is among its latest opening dates ever. Here's what visitors should know this summer.
Some commercially produced maps show US 89 going through Yellowstone National Park; however, it officially has a gap inside the park and resumes in Wyoming at the South Entrance. US 89 travels north along the Yellowstone River for 52.9 miles (85.1 km) to Livingston , where it heads east along a 7.5-mile (12.1 km) concurrency with I-90 / US 191 .
Nov. 1—Crews are on schedule this fall to finish paving the stretch of the Going-to-the-Sun Road under construction from Apgar to Lake McDonald Lodge in Glacier National Park. Paving on the road ...
This route would become the Going-to-the-Sun Road. [2] By 1920, eleven states were involved in the Park-to-Park Highway program. The proposed route would cover 6,000 miles (9,700 km) of roads and numerous feeders to and from the various national parks. [3]
Glacier National Park officials have provided an update on the closure of Going-to-the-Sun Road, stating to will open through Logan Pass "no earlier than" July 13.