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Marias Pass
Marias Pass obelisk and statue of John F. Stevens.
Marias Pass (elevation 5,213 feet (1,589 m)) is a mountain pass in the Rocky Mountains in the western US state of Montana. Lying on the southern border of
Glacier National Park, it is traversed by US Highway 2 and by the BNSF Hi-Line Subdivision.
The pass is the lowest crossing of the Continental Divide between Canada and central New Mexico
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, and is the northernmost pass in the US open to automobile traffic year-round.
^"American Experience: John Stevens". Public Broadcasting System. Retrieved March 25, 2021.
parallel north, but in geological terms it might be considered to be at MariasPass in northern Montana. The Canadian Rockies have numerous high peaks and...
used either Snoqualmie on the south or the Indian Pass on the north." Stevens had also charted MariasPass in northwestern Montana, on the Continental Divide...
crests the Continental Divide at the summit of MariasPass. The line descends down the west side of the pass for 20 miles (32 km) to Essex, Montana, running...
Mountain sits along the Continental Divide and can be easily seen from MariasPass. The mountain was named by George Bird Grinnell for "Little Dog," Blackfoot...
Rockies, which extend to MariasPass, at the head of the North Fork Flathead River in Montana, United States. McGregor Pass is the prominence col for...
MariasPass Approach (representing the BNSF MariasPass line between Shelby, Montana and Cut Bank, Montana and serving as a demo for the full Marias Pass...
Laboratory announced the discovery of large amounts of tridymite in MariasPass on the slope of Aeolis Mons, popularly known as Mount Sharp, on the planet...
the Flathead River, crossing the Continental Divide at MariasPass. After crossing MariasPass, the Empire Builder leaves Glacier National Park and enters...
1300 to 1400 million years younger. The décollement can be seen from MariasPass as a thin tan line of rock roughly halfway up Summit Mountain and Little...
adjacent to the Continental Divide and .5 miles (0.80 km) northwest of MariasPass. List of lakes in Glacier County, Montana "Three Bears Lake". Geographic...
through North Dakota/Northern Montana, crossing the continental divide at MariasPass, while the former NP line routed through the southern part of Montana...
galleries are a common sight on railroads in mountain areas, such as MariasPass and Donner Pass in the United States, or many of the Swiss mountain railways...
Umbrail Pass (elevation 2,501 m or 8,205 ft) is a high mountain pass on the Swiss-Italian border connecting Santa Maria in Val Müstair with Bormio in...
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US 2, BNSF Railway, and Amtrak Empire Builder
