Still "definitely weeks" until Glacier National Park's Going-to-the-Sun Road may open for the "summer"

Missoulian: Snow going: As crews work to clear Sun Road, opening date in question

Which will plow the 2008 spring opening right into the record books as one of the latest ever. It's even possible winter may still lay claim to the highest reaches come the Fourth of July.

“It's been a long, persistent winter,” said park spokeswoman Melissa Wilson, “and a very cool and wet spring.”
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“We're only now getting back to where we were to begin with,” Foster said, “and it's worse than it was the first time we plowed it. This winter has been amazing.”

Crews have labored each spring since 1933 to clear the popular but precipitous route, and on average the job is done by about June 8.

The earliest opening was mid-May, back in 1987.

In 1943, with workers away at war, the road wasn't opened over Logan Pass until July 10. Since then, the latest openings came on June 28, 2002, when the road remained buried by late-season snows, and July 1, 2007, when leftover damage from a fall storm slowed the spring opening.