Going-to-the-Sun Road

Traveling Glacier National Park's Going to the Sun Road is an experience like no other.
Crafted over a steep and unforgiving route—one that some thought impossible—the Going-to-the-Sun Road spans 50 miles from West Glacier to St. Mary, taking travelers through the heart of Glacier. This marvel of engineering offers visitors some of the most awe-inspiring views in the world as it traverses the Garden Wall, with its 1,000 foot drop, crosses the Continental Divide at 6,646-foot Logan Pass, and winds its way through the magnificent mountains and along the shore of St. Mary Lake.
Park officials, landscape architects, construction engineers, and countless laborers toiled nearly 20 years to carve a road that least damaged the magnificent country it crosses—something that had never been done before on so large a scale. It was designed to harmonize with the landscape in such a way as to be almost unseen.
One of the most scenic highways in the world, the Going-to-the-Sun Road set the standard for all national parks. It is the best of its kind.
C. W. Guthrie tells the intriguing tale of the history and the construction of the epic Going-to-the-Sun Road, a story of determination, idealism, and a desire to do the impossible.