Sun Road work chugs along this fall

Construction crews will work on the Going-to-the-Sun Road until snow forces them to stop, park spokesman Wade Muehlhof said earlier this week.

Relatively good weather so far has allowed HK Construction to finish paving a 3.5-mile stretch from Crystal Point to Haystack Creek — one of the most scenic sections of the highway.

Now workers are focusing on a stretch from Big Bend to Logan Pass, where they will build a transit bus stop in the parking lot, and they will soon start repairs at mile marker 19, near Logan Creek, where the flood of September 2006 destablized the road.

The work marks the end of motorized access to Logan Pass, though bikers and hikers can still reach it.

The east side is closed all the way down to Jackson Glacier Overlook. On the west side, hikers and bikers can go beyond the Loop, provided there's no construction and the weather cooperates.

Snow will close most park roads by early November.

Currently, visitors can drive to Avalanche on the west side and Jackson Glacier Overlook on the east side. Secondary roads, save for the Chief Mountain Road, remain open. The Chief Mountain Road is closed at the Park boundary.