Going-to-the-Sun Road

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“Going-to-the-Sun Road is a scenic mountain road in the Rocky Mountains of the western United States, in Glacier National Park in Montana. The Sun Road, as it is sometimes abbreviated in National Park Service documents, is the only road that traverses the park, crossing the Continental Divide through Logan Pass at an elevation of 6,646 feet (2,026 m), which is the highest point on the road.”
Wikipedia article Going-to-the-Sun Road, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 29 National Register listings published here for Glacier County · listed in 1983 · category: Structure · a National Historic Landmark.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Glacier Rt. 1, West Glacier, 59434
When was it listed? June 1983
Category. structure
Census division. Glacier National Park
Architectural style. National Park Service rustic
National Register reference number. 83001070 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

10 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Going-to-the-Sun Road between 1997 and 2017, burning about 5,011 acres in total. 9 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Natural	9
Recreation and ceremony	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
1 September 2012	Natural	160 acres	Glacier National Park	AVALANCHE
1 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	AVALANCHE
8 August 2006	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	HEAVY RUNNER
31 August 1997	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Glacier National Park	OUTBOUND
26 August 2011	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	HEAVY RUNNER
11 August 2017	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	PIEGAN
23 July 2000	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	FLORAL PARK
21 July 2015	Natural	4,850 acres	Glacier National Park	REYNOLDS FIRE

Every fire recorded in Glacier County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

3 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Logan Pass Visitor Center	4.1 miles	2008
Sun Camp Fireguard Cabin	6.5 miles	1999
Glacier National Park Tourist Trails-Inside Trail, South Circle, North Circle	6.8 miles	1996

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 83001070 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Glacier County	All 29 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.