Progress on Going to the Sun Road

It is a beautiful day here in paradise.. finally..... the past few day showed us another taste of winter weather with the higher elevations receiving over 2 foot of new snow. The FLATTOP MTN. SNOTEL Data Report site is reporting still having 109 inches of snow on the ground at the 6300 foot level. This of course has moved the plows back down the road to lower elevations until conditions permit safe working conditions. The park had predicted that the road would open tomorrow June 13, 2008, However that is not even close. Only time will tell when that will happen.

There is a new Superintendent arriving in the near future at the park. Only time will tell how he will fit in. Currently and since the departure of Mick Holm into retirement, the deputy supt has been trying to run the park. Luckily it has been the quiet time of the year. Typically in past tenures other supts have been here as a last stop before retirement. Therefore more has been done to achieve their own goals and agendas than actually do something positive for the park.

Road construction is still ongoing again this year and the weather has slowed or stopped some aspects of their job. Paving that supposed to done this spring will most likely not happen because of the late spring weather.
The GTSR