Logan Pass is located along the Continental Divide

Continental Divide

The Continental Divide of the Americas, or merely the Continental Gulf of Division or Great Divide, is the name given to the principal, and largely mountainous, hydrological divide of the Americas that separates the watersheds that drain into the Pacific Ocean from those river systems that drain...

 in Glacier National Park, in the U.S. state

U.S. state

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 of Montana

Montana

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. It is the highest point on the Going-to-the-Sun Road

Going-to-the-Sun Road

Going-to-the-Sun Road is the only road through the heart of Glacier National Park in Montana, USA. It was completed in 1932, and it is the only road that crosses the park, going over the Continental Divide at Logan Pass. A fleet of 1930s red tour buses "jammers", rebuilt in 2001 to run on propane...

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The Logan Pass Visitor Center

Logan Pass Visitor Center

The Logan Pass Visitor Center in Glacier National Park was constructed at the summit of the Going-to-the-Sun Road during the Mission 66 park facilities improvement program. It was designed by Cecil Doty of the National Park Service Western Office of Design and Construction , in collaboration with...

 is open during the summer season just east of the pass. The pass is a popular starting point for hiking

Hiking

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 and backpacking

Backpacking (wilderness)

Backpacking combines the activities of hiking and camping for an overnight stay in backcountry wilderness...

 trips. The most popular trail is the Highline Trail which heads north along the west side of the continental divide, through an area known as the Garden Wall, due to the proliferation of wildflower

Wildflower

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s which grow there during the summer.

Just east of the pass, an area known as Big Drift

Big Drift

The Big Drift is in Glacier National Park, in the U.S. state of Montana and is an area along the Going-to-the-Sun Road where a large amount of winter snow can accumulate to depths of . Located immediately east of Logan Pass, the westerly winds push snow over the crest of the Continental Divide...

 often records over 100 feet (30 m) of snowfall, much of which has been pushed over the continental divide by the prevailing westerly winds during the winter.