Travel the iconic Going-to-the-Sun Road, a masterpiece of early 20th-century engineering that offers unparalleled access to Glacier's alpine heart.
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Fifty Miles Through Impossible Terrain
This series, The Road to the Sun, traces the story of one of the most ambitious road-building projects in American history — the Going-to-the-Sun Road through Glacier…
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Carving Roads Into Sheer Rock Faces
Construction crews working on Going-to-the-Sun Road sometimes dangled from ropes anchored above, drilling blast holes into cliff faces while suspended hundreds of feet…
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Where Rain Chooses Its Ocean
At 6,646 feet, Logan Pass sits on the Continental Divide — the hydrological spine of North America.
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The Garden Wall's Ancient Cliff Face
The Garden Wall is an arête — a knife-edge ridge carved by glaciers grinding away on both sides simultaneously over millions of years.
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Glacier's Red Buses Roll Since 1936
The fleet of red touring buses operating in Glacier National Park are the oldest intact fleet of passenger vehicles anywhere in the world still in regular use.
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Eighty Feet of Snow Every Spring
Snowdrifts at Logan Pass can stack up to eighty feet deep — tall enough to bury an eight-story building.
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