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It's time to start off your engines and get ready to take on the open road this
October. It took practically 25 years to build the famous Going-to-the-Sun Road
and it was an instant hit when opened for public in 1933.
Covering a distance of 52-mile run over the spike of Rockies at Apgar
is a breathtaking drive, even when clogged with traffic during heavy season. Some
may call glaciers as the Hiker Park's favorite draw, but for those with limited
time and capacity for trail walking, the Going-to-the-Sun Road presents a complete
view of the park's muscles and bones.
Propelling visitors every year through the center of Montana's
famous Glacier National Park, the Going-to-the-Sun Road is the
only way to commute by vehicle from one side of the park to the other, going over
the Continental Divide at Logan Pass. It is also a National Historic
Landmark and a Historic Civil Engineering Landmark and one of the most difficult
roads in North America to cross during the spring season. In case of snow falling,
it takes almost two weeks to plow the road, even with the latest equipment with
the capacity of moving 5000 tons of snow in an hour. Generally open from June
to mid October, its latest ever opening on the records is July 13 in
2011.
It is quite narrow and sometimes high winds roll through its borders, especially
west of Logan Pass. As a result vehicle lengths over the uppermost sections of the
roadway are limited to 21 feet (or 6.4 m), implying that no trailers or recreational
vehicles in excess of this length constraint are permitted beyond the park's two
larger parking areas, both located at lower points.
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