Going-to-the-Sun Road driving road map

by Sidney van den Boogaard

Few roads have a name this grand, and fewer live up to it. Going-to-the-Sun Road crosses Glacier National Park from West Glacier, running along the shore of Lake McDonald before climbing across sheer rock walls to Logan Pass, where it crosses the Continental Divide at 6,646 feet. On the way you pass through two tunnels and beside waterfalls that seem to pour straight out of the cliff. To the east it descends to St. Mary Lake. Dedicated in 1933, it has been a National Historic Landmark since 1997, and it is usually fully open only from early July. For anyone who wants mountains and lakes in a single drive.

This work is part of the Petrolhead Roads collection: the world's finest driving and riding roads, from coastal routes and mountain roads to legendary ribbons of curves. Each road is drawn from the real route and finished in the same calm, graphic style, with the elevation profile and, along the bottom, the length, the road number and the facts that made the road famous.

The road is drawn from OpenStreetMap data (© OpenStreetMap contributors) and the profile from Copernicus elevation data. A great gift for anyone who would rather drive a great road than the motorway.