You'd go up in the morning, work on the top and then you'd come back and it went in behind you," Paul said. "There's a few areas where we had to clear avalanches like five, six times. As the snow melts, water runs through the snowpack, creating avalanches and slides. At the higher elevations, temperatures stay freezing for longer. Paul said snow on the road's lower elevations usually melts quickly. "Our biggest hazards out there are avalanches, rockfall and icefall," Paul said. It was reportedly plucked from a legend of a deity called Sour Spirit who taught the Blackfeet people how to hunt and "on his way back to the sun, Sour Spirit had his image reproduced on the top of the mountain for inspiration to the Blackfeet."Ī mountain goat walks the cliff along Going-to-the-Sun Road on June 26, 2021. How Going-to-the-Sun Road got its nameĪccording to the park's website, a 1933 news release about the opening of the road said it took the name "Going-to-the-Sun" from a nearby mountain of that name. This year, because of the large number of visitors to the park, you’ll need to make a reservation and have a ticket to drive the road. It's fully open just a few months of the year, typically between late June and October. Tourists have a limited window of opportunity to experience the road, which was an engineering marvel when it opened in 1933 and still is today. Its rock and masonry guardrails and tunnels lend ambiance as waterfalls of melting snow and the occasional wild animal wandering nearby add wonder to the drive. Going-to-the-Sun Road snakes 51 miles through the heart of Glacier National Park, passing idyllic views of mountains and streams. GLACIER NATIONAL PARK, Montana – From almost every other car making the ascent of Going-to-the-Sun Road, an arm dangles out a window, cellphone clutched firmly in hand by someone trying to photograph a view whose majesty will never fully be expressed in an Instagram post.
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