Going to the Sun Road

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June 8th? Plan on driving around the southern route to get from east to west and Many Glacier. This is still great and has its own beauty. We are headed up from Helena next weekend (Memorial Day)and will head up the road from each side to see how far they are. I think last year (not as much snow)it opened on June 28th. You can see the Logan Pass webcam if you want. I can just see a corner of one of the buildings on that. It's still winter up there by the way. We went to Georgetown Lake down around Butte/Anaconda two weeks ago (day trip) and it was still winter up there with the entire lake still frozen over.

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maddog348 wrote:
Gambling with Mother Nature ~ Good Luck

TravelSafe ~ StayWell ~ HaveFun JM2¢ YMMV

You just gotta know when to hold ‘em and know when to fold ‘em. That means watch the opening dates on the NPS website!

Average opening date is the 3rd week in June. This year's snowpack is huge. However, they seem to be making pretty good speed so far---all plowing crews are on the road full time, and they have started on the "Big Drift" east of Logan Pass.

Your best bet is to check the park website often, and the webcams.

When we were there in '08, it didn't open till around the 5th of July, I wouldn't bet a paycheck on it being open by the 8th of June, that's pretty early. Check out the webcams.

Yellowstone still lots of snow...Cooke City (NE corner) still has snowmobiling going on.

Glacier always a month or so behind us...soooo??

Frequently the West side up to Logan's Pass will be open a couple of weeks before the East side. When we were there in 2015, the West side opened up on 6/10 or 11. As has been mentioned, going to the NPS website is the best source of info.

Twomed wrote:
Yellowstone still lots of snow...Cooke City (NE corner) still has snowmobiling going on.

Glacier always a month or so behind us...soooo??

Oh come in!!!! I put mine away in February! Actually I just emptied the fuel and cleaned them! Ughh!

But we’ll be down by Springfield IL next weekend! Supposed to be near 90!

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