Going to the Sun Road-Glacier National Park, Montana
I can only compare the beauty of this road to the Icefield Parkway, in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Here is a series of this gorgeous road, so you can appreciated its beauty. I know this is not doing justice to this magnificent scenery, but it was what I was able to capture for you.
Going-to-the-Sun Road is the only road through the heart of Glacier National Park in Montana, USA. It was completed in 1932, and it is the only road that crosses the park, going over the Continental Divide at Logan Pass. A fleet of 1930s red tour buses "jammers", rebuilt in 2001 to run on propane or gas, offer tours on the road. The road, a National Historic Landmark and a Historic Civil Engineering Landmark, spans 53 miles (85 km) across the width of the park.
The road is one of the most difficult roads in North America to snowplow in the spring. Up to 80 feet (24 m) of snow can lie on top of Logan Pass, and more just east of the pass where the deepest snowfield has long been referred to as Big Drift. The road takes about ten weeks to plow, even with equipment that can move 4000 tons of snow in an hour.
The road is generally open from early June to mid October, with its latest ever opening on July 13, 2011
As always, thanks for stopping by and looking. I appreciate your comments and visits.
Going to the Sun Road-Glacier National Park, Montana
I can only compare the beauty of this road to the Icefield Parkway, in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Here is a series of this gorgeous road, so you can appreciated its beauty. I know this is not doing justice to this magnificent scenery, but it was what I was able to capture for you.
Going-to-the-Sun Road is the only road through the heart of Glacier National Park in Montana, USA. It was completed in 1932, and it is the only road that crosses the park, going over the Continental Divide at Logan Pass. A fleet of 1930s red tour buses "jammers", rebuilt in 2001 to run on propane or gas, offer tours on the road. The road, a National Historic Landmark and a Historic Civil Engineering Landmark, spans 53 miles (85 km) across the width of the park.
The road is one of the most difficult roads in North America to snowplow in the spring. Up to 80 feet (24 m) of snow can lie on top of Logan Pass, and more just east of the pass where the deepest snowfield has long been referred to as Big Drift. The road takes about ten weeks to plow, even with equipment that can move 4000 tons of snow in an hour.
The road is generally open from early June to mid October, with its latest ever opening on July 13, 2011
As always, thanks for stopping by and looking. I appreciate your comments and visits.