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3 unusual facts about Going-to-the-Sun Road


Going-to-the-Sun Road

As the project proceeded, Goodwin lost influence with National Park Service director Stephen Mather, who favored landscape architect Thomas Chalmers Vint's alternative routing of the upper portion of the road along the Garden Wall escarpment.

Leftover aerial shots from this footage were used for the closing moments of the original cut of the 1982 film Blade Runner.

U.S. Route 89

At St. Mary, Montana, U.S. 89 is the access highway to Glacier Route One, also known as the Going-to-the-Sun Road.



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