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Going-to-the-Sun Road - Glacier National Park - Opens when?
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Niehart
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Pterodactyl
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We rode into Many Glacier last Sunday on our way to Banff/Jasper. Didn't even check on the Sun road. There was a great deal of new snow up on the peaks.
As of 27 June:
Currently 29.0 miles of the Going-to-the-Sun Road are open for travel.
Visitors can drive 15.5 miles from the West Entrance to Avalanche, and 13.5 miles from the St. Mary Entrance to Jackson Glacier Overlook.
The section of the road between Avalanche and Jackson Glacier Overlook is closed due to plowing.
West side hiker/biker restrictions:
Hiker/biker restrictions will be at Bird Woman while the road crew is working.
East side hiker/biker restrictions: There will be no hiker/biker access past Jackson Glacier Overlook.
As of 27 June:
Currently 29.0 miles of the Going-to-the-Sun Road are open for travel.
Visitors can drive 15.5 miles from the West Entrance to Avalanche, and 13.5 miles from the St. Mary Entrance to Jackson Glacier Overlook.
The section of the road between Avalanche and Jackson Glacier Overlook is closed due to plowing.
West side hiker/biker restrictions:
Hiker/biker restrictions will be at Bird Woman while the road crew is working.
East side hiker/biker restrictions: There will be no hiker/biker access past Jackson Glacier Overlook.
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escapefjrtist
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Nice pic Pops, I remember that spot ^^^^ looks kinda wet!
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Niehart
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Picture from the east dryer side.
beemerdons
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escapefjrtist
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Geezer
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That road can be open one day and closed the next depending on snowfall. You have to go for it and hope it is open when you get there. If you are in the neighborhood and find it closed, there are interesting roads that go around the perimeter of the park, so it won't be a waste.
Pterodactyl
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Opening of Glacier’s Going-to-the-Sun Road expected this weekend By VINCE DEVLIN Missoulian
WEST GLACIER – Glacier National Park’s Going-to-the-Sun Road is expected to open for the season this weekend, but whether that means Friday, Saturday or Sunday isn’t yet known, a park official said Monday.
June snowstorms and more than two dozen snow slides – some of them 15 feet deep and 200 feet long on portions of the road that had already been cleared – have hampered the efforts of snowplow crews to open LoganPass to vehicle traffic. The crews have encountered drifts as deep as 80 feet this year in their three-month effort to plow the only road that crosses Glacier.
“Opening the Going-to-the-Sun Road is a priority, and many employees are helping to make that happen,” Glacier Superintendent Jeff Mow said in a news release Monday.
Glacier spokeswoman Denise Germann said park officials hope to know more by Wednesday. She confirmed that an anticipated opening of “this weekend” included the possibility of Friday, which is also the Fourth of July. The latest opening of Going-to-the-Sun on record happened in 2011, when weather didn’t cooperate and plowing wasn’t finished until July 13. There is more involved than just plowing the road. Trail and campground crews are removing snow by hand at the LoganPassVisitorCenter, where water must be tested and facilities and restrooms cleaned prior to its opening. There is also some debris left from a winter’s worth of avalanches to be cleared from the road, and removable guardrails and road signage to be re-installed.
Until Going-to-the-Sun opens, vehicles cannot go beyond Avalanche Creek on the west side of the park and the Jackson Glacier Overlook on the east side.
Hikers and bikers can travel from Avalanche to Bird Woman Overlook on the west side, but there is no hiker-biker access on the east side due to road rehabilitation work.
Limited shuttle service on the west side has been giving visitors a chance to travel between Apgar and The Loop, where the road switches back and begins its steady, spectacular climb to Logan Pass. Starting Tuesday, that free service will begin making its regular stops at places such as Lake McDonald Lodge as well.
Mow said cost savings from postponed full shuttle operations, and salary savings of various park vacancies, allowed the limited shuttle service.
“We understand the value to the visitor, and local economy, of accessing the alpine section of the road and are doing our best to accommodate,” he said.
The road opening is important to many businesses inside and outside the park. Many visitors to Glacier delay their trips until they know they can drive the narrow, winding road across the Continental Divide.
Full shuttle service between Apgar and St. Mary will begin when the road opens.
The elevation at Logan Pass is 6,646 feet.
WEST GLACIER – Glacier National Park’s Going-to-the-Sun Road is expected to open for the season this weekend, but whether that means Friday, Saturday or Sunday isn’t yet known, a park official said Monday.
June snowstorms and more than two dozen snow slides – some of them 15 feet deep and 200 feet long on portions of the road that had already been cleared – have hampered the efforts of snowplow crews to open LoganPass to vehicle traffic. The crews have encountered drifts as deep as 80 feet this year in their three-month effort to plow the only road that crosses Glacier.
“Opening the Going-to-the-Sun Road is a priority, and many employees are helping to make that happen,” Glacier Superintendent Jeff Mow said in a news release Monday.
Glacier spokeswoman Denise Germann said park officials hope to know more by Wednesday. She confirmed that an anticipated opening of “this weekend” included the possibility of Friday, which is also the Fourth of July. The latest opening of Going-to-the-Sun on record happened in 2011, when weather didn’t cooperate and plowing wasn’t finished until July 13. There is more involved than just plowing the road. Trail and campground crews are removing snow by hand at the LoganPassVisitorCenter, where water must be tested and facilities and restrooms cleaned prior to its opening. There is also some debris left from a winter’s worth of avalanches to be cleared from the road, and removable guardrails and road signage to be re-installed.
Until Going-to-the-Sun opens, vehicles cannot go beyond Avalanche Creek on the west side of the park and the Jackson Glacier Overlook on the east side.
Hikers and bikers can travel from Avalanche to Bird Woman Overlook on the west side, but there is no hiker-biker access on the east side due to road rehabilitation work.
Limited shuttle service on the west side has been giving visitors a chance to travel between Apgar and The Loop, where the road switches back and begins its steady, spectacular climb to Logan Pass. Starting Tuesday, that free service will begin making its regular stops at places such as Lake McDonald Lodge as well.
Mow said cost savings from postponed full shuttle operations, and salary savings of various park vacancies, allowed the limited shuttle service.
“We understand the value to the visitor, and local economy, of accessing the alpine section of the road and are doing our best to accommodate,” he said.
The road opening is important to many businesses inside and outside the park. Many visitors to Glacier delay their trips until they know they can drive the narrow, winding road across the Continental Divide.
Full shuttle service between Apgar and St. Mary will begin when the road opens.
The elevation at Logan Pass is 6,646 feet.
Pterodactyl
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bigjohnsd
2021 BMW R1250GSA
Kevin, did you get any of the snow we got last weekend?
Top_Speed1
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Niehart
Pie Smuggler
Seems appropriate:
Happy 105th birthday to Glacier National Park! On this day in 1910, President Taft signed into law the official creation of our beloved national park.
Happy 105th birthday to Glacier National Park! On this day in 1910, President Taft signed into law the official creation of our beloved national park.
BikerGeek99
Yeah, it's a concrete corn cob. So?
Sooze and I rode the GTTSR on July 14, 2010. The traffic congestion and the road construction sucked, but ohhhh those views.... And there was snow at Logan Pass.
Top_Speed1
Panama Canal Crosser
Man, this is what I'm talking about!Seems appropriate:Happy 105th birthday to Glacier National Park! On this day in 1910, President Taft signed into law the official creation of our beloved national park.
...some say it's only 'bout da womenz with TS1, well, this image says it all. Mountainous Womenz!
End of July when I'm there, if I see snow, I'm pulling over to the side of the road and puking! After the winter we just went through? ..enough of that crap!
BikerGeek99
Yeah, it's a concrete corn cob. So?
Keep in mind, KJ, that Logan Pass will have you at an elevation higher than ~ 430 feet above sea level.
So, snow along the road? Prolly - the temperature at Logan Pass was in the mid-40's while we were there.
And don't be surprised to see some critters along the road as well.
So, snow along the road? Prolly - the temperature at Logan Pass was in the mid-40's while we were there.
And don't be surprised to see some critters along the road as well.
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