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GLACIER NATIONAL PARK
Going-to-the-Sun Road (West Side) (1918-1938)

The low masonry parapet walls built from a random arrangement of irregularly shaped and sized local rock exemplify the naturalistic approach followed in the design of structures which could not be concealed by vegetation or topography.

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Photograph by Ethan Carr.


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