Going-to-the-Sun Road Was Built in 1932 and It Has Never Been Widened

Glacier National Park has one road through it. Fifty miles, two lanes, crossing the Continental Divide at Logan Pass at 6,646 feet. It was finished in 1932, dedicated in 1933, and it has never been widened. Because the road cannot be enlarged, the park restricts what can drive on it instead. Vehicles longer than 21 feet or wider than 8 feet are prohibited between Avalanche Creek and Rising Sun. On the east side of the pass there are long stretches with no guardrail, because avalanches destroy them every winter and crews reinstall what they can each spring before the road opens. Three men died building it. Snow at Logan Pass can pile sixty to eighty feet deep, and the park will not predict an opening date, because a single storm can undo weeks of plowing. Three million people visit Glacier every year, and almost all of them drive this road. Sources and further reading: National Park Service, Going-to-the-Sun Road general information and vehicle size restrictions National Park Service, Glacier National Park road status and plowing records Glacier National Park Archives, Going-to-the-Sun Road construction and dedication records, 1924 to 1934 Montana History Portal, Transmountain Highway construction collection Department of the Interior, 1933 dedication press release If you have driven this road, tell me in the comments what it was actually like. The people who drive it regularly know things about it that no report records.