Hiking south from Mount Robson.

Montana

Going-to-the-Sun Road Dedication

Exactly 88 years ago today, a dedication ceremony was held at Logan Pass on July 15 to celebrate the recently completed construction of the Going-to-the-Sun Road, an engineering feat.

The full length of the Road had officially opened to the public four days earlier, on July 11, 1933, allowing automobile tourists to access Glacier’s high country as they traveled through the park.

For the dedication festivities, park cooks prepared a chili lunch for 2,500 people, but ran out of food when over 4,000 actually showed up. Various dignitaries from the US and Canada spoke at the ceremony, including politicians and representatives of the National Park Service, Bureau of Public Roads, Montana State Highway Commission, and the Blackfeet, Salish, and Kootenai tribes. Glacier superintendent E. T. Scoyen read a letter from NPS Director Horace Albright that stated in part, “Let there be no competition of other roads with Going-to-the-Sun Highway. It should stand supreme and alone.”

Logan Pass, Glacier National Park, MT

East Glacier Park, Montana, 19-07-1965

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