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Driving the Going-to-the-Sun Road: 1960s
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DRIVING THE GOING-TO-THE-SUN ROAD 1960s – DESCRIPTIVE TRANSCRIPT
Title card: Driving the Going-to-the-Sun Road: 1960s
Title card: The 1960s brought more services and development than ever along the Going-to-the-Sun Road, as Mission 66 projects continued. Visitors came from all over to drive this famous road!
Quick montage of close-ups of 1960s license plates, showing Illinois, Alberta, Wisconsin, Colorado, New York, Illinois, Wyoming, Ohio, Oregon, Arizona, Maryland.
A 1960’s-era sedan pulls up to a park entrance station and stops at the booth window.
A park ranger leans out of the window to talk with the driver. After a quick exchange, the car rolls along.
Dashboard view driving through a dark forest road, with snowy mountains gleaming in the distance.
Dashboard view from sedan rounding a bend in the well-paved road with short stone guardrails on the left side and rocky hillside on the right.
The car approaches a tunnel in the mountainside and drives through it.
A hairpin turn in the road seen from above. A couple of other cars are parked. Mountains loom in the distance.
The car continues up the moderately-graded road.
Rounding a bend, the scenery becomes more rocky and cliffy. A large waterfall tumbles down next to the road, flowing under a melting snowpatch.
A series of shorter waterfalls cascade next to the road. A small sign pointing to the waterfalls reads ‘Weeping Wall.’
Far view of a car driving over a stone bridge built over a waterfall’s path.
An RV travels up the rocky road and the camera zooms out to reveal a narrow glacier at the base of a mountain.
Aerial view of cars driving a bend in the road. A large snowdrift frames the right-hand side of the road.
Cars travel a narrow switchback at the base of a mountain laden with snow patches.
Dashboard view rounding abend in the road. Snowy mountain peaks appear closer now. The sides of the road are snowy. A big sign says “Slow.”
Title card: These clips show the Logan Pass parking area and new visitor center under construction. The visitor center was opened in 1967, and remains the most-visited spot in the park.
In a snowy valley below the mountain peaks, a car drives past a large dirt area with construction equipment next to a building.
Dashboard footage driving on a gently graded downslope section of the road. The surrounding mountainside is forested with lingering snow patches beneath the trees.
The car travels faster downhill around a steeper curve in the road.
Title card: In the mid-1960s, the NPS wrote formal guidelines for park roads, establishing an ethic for road design and recognizing the need to manage visitor use of park roads.
Title card: In 1969, Glacier surpassed 1 million visitors for the first time.
A white sedan travels downhill on the road, passing a small cascade and heading towards a tunnel in the mountainside.
Dashboard view of passing through the tunnel.
A red bus and several passenger cars drive a flat section of the road, and a large flat-topped mountain looms behind.
Cars drive past brightly-colored yellow and orange foliage on the roadside.
Description
The last in a series of four highlight reels showing the visitor experience of driving the Going-to-the-Sun Road from the 1930s through the 1960s. A big part of the 1960s along the road was 'Mission 66' programs designed to improve park infrastructure.
Duration
3 minutes, 38 seconds
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