In 1933, the Park Service opened the Going-to-the-Sun Road, providing a scenic route through Glacier National Park. This booklet advertises this as the “new Logan Pass detour,” allowing people to get off at East Glacier or Belton, take a bus trip over Logan Pass, spend the night at a hotel, and then continue their journey the next day.
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previously seen a booklet like this that presented this route but didn’t call it “new.” I dated it to 1932, but it must have been issued in 1934 or 1935.
We’veThe two booklets have many similarities but some stark differences. The later booklet, for example, has two pages on Waterton National Park, while this one dedicates those two pages to Mount Rainier and the Empire Builder.
Both booklets advertise the various hotels and chalets in the park and suggest a five-day horseback trip. Starting at Going-to-the-Sun Chalets, riders would go to and spend nights at Many Glacier, Granite Chalet, Lake McDonald, Sperry Chalet, and then back to Going-to-the-Sun Chalets. This tour “can also be started from Many-Glacier or Lake McDonald Hotel.” Such a trip would almost be possible today, but the Going-to-the-Sun Chalets are gone. (So is Sperry, but it is being rebuilt.)