Glacier Park plows heading toward The Loop
Hungry Horse News | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 11 years, 7 months AGO
Glacier National Park plows should enter the alpine section on the west side of the Going-to-the-Sun Road this week. Crews were beyond Logan Creek and heading toward the West Side Tunnel and The Loop by the beginning of the week and running into two to four feet of snow on the road.
On the east side, crews finished plowing the Many Glacier Valley roads and planned to plow the Two Medicine area this week. The Many Glacier Road is still not open to vehicles.
The weather is expected to be cool and wet this week in Glacier Park, with snow at higher elevations and highs in the 40s and 50s.
The Sun Road is gated at Lake McDonald Lodge but open to hikers and bikers beyond that. The hiker and biker closure is at Avalanche Creek when plows are working, but generally there are no restrictions after 6 p.m. and on the weekends.
The Sun Road was free of ice and snow from Avalanche Creek to just before the Logan Pit, but there was a lot of ice on the road after that.
It has been slow to warm up this spring, and most trails in the Park remain covered in snow.
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