Beginning Construction For An Idaho & Montana Visitor Information Center, Year 2002.
…. BUT …. At Lolo Pass …. Where Is the ZMM Narrator’s Restaurant?
…….Although Ii Is Typical & Popular For A Restaurant to Be At A Leveled-Off Place, At The Maximum Of A Mountain Pass, I Could Find No Evidence Of Such.
….So … Contrary to The ZMM Narrator’s “At Lolo Pass” , The ZMM Restaurant, MUST Have Been At Lolo Hot Springs, Which is NOT AT LOLO PASS, But Seven Miles PRIOR To “Lolo Pass” , Which Is Of Course, Is Exactly At The MT-ID Border.

….[ “At Lolo Pass we see a restaurant, and pull up in front of it… “ ]
….As seen in Previous Photo => There is a nice Lodge and Restaurant at Lolo Hot Springs. This is in Montana, on US-12, about 7 miles prior to the MT--ID-border. All things considered, this almost certainly must have been the location of the ZMM Restaurant
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Lolo Pass, MT & ID Border.
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…DATE-LINE: June 13, 2021: by Henry Gurr.
ChangesSinceRobertPirsig1968Trip. As Seen By HSG in 2002.
My /\ Above/\ June 29, 2002 Photo shows then current construction to make a new Idaho-Montana Tourist Visitor Information Center at Lolo Pass, Which Is Here At The Montana – Idaho Border.
….Since the work area of the construction covers all of the relatively flat area at the pass, the construction of the Visitor’s Center, possibly removed evidence of where there may have been any former building, such as a restaurant. However, close inspection reveals that all evidence of any previous buildings, such as a Previous Restaurant, or previous Visitor Center, at the top of the pass (if any) has been removed by the construction.
….PLEASE READ Visitor Center INFORMATION BELOW AND ADDITIONAL Old Mud Creek Ranger Station TEXT IN NEXT PHOTO.
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Excerpt From National Park Service Page.
…. The Lolo Pass Visitor Center is a historical landmark site on the Lewis and Clark Highway, bordering Montana and Idaho. It is located near the area where Meriwether Lewis and William Clark took eleven days in September of 1805 to traverse the grueling Lolo Pass through the Bitterroot Mountains. The dangerous terrain, harsh weather conditions, and near-starvation resulted in the most arduous portion of the entire expedition in which the men resorted to eating some of their own horses to survive. The visitor center is also located on the Nez Perce National Historic Trail, a path followed by a band of Nez Perce Indians while fleeing from the U.S. Calvary in 1877 to avoid being forced onto a reservation.
….At the visitor center, visitors will find information detailing Lewis and Clark's journey across the Bitterroot Mountains and the flight of the Nez Perce Indians, along with other historical, natural, and general information. As a major trailhead for cross-country skiing and snowmobiling, the center also has a warming hut for skiers and recreationists, a 24-hour restroom, a snowmobile parking lot, and maps and information pertinent to winter visitors.
…. [[This Page (Blue Link Above) also shows a Map of => Lewis and Clark National Historic Trails (NHT) Visitor Centers and Museums. ]]
…. Although there is no doubt that The Bitterroot Mountains are “grueling .. dangerous terrain, with harsh winter weather conditions”, by total contrast, the summer traveler, in a modern automobile on the current day smooth paved highway, has absolutely no sense of any arduous! At least this was my Henry Gurr’s experience in 2002!
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Concerning The QUALITY & CRAFTSMANSHIP OF =>
…. The Lolo Pass Visitor Center Building, The USDA Forest Service WebPage, Blue Link Above, Says. =>
,,,,As extensively discussed in the NEXT photo => This NEW Visitor Center, reuses buildings which were originally a part of the Old Mud Creek Ranger Station near Lolo Hot Springs in 1923. In 1977 they were moved to Lolo Pass and restored to meet the increased demands of an information center.”
….Robert Pirsig And The ZMM Narrator Would HIGHLY Approve Of Such =>
… Preservation, “Restoration”, and Re-Use of this Historical Old National Forest Service Ranger Station Building. And especially a Re-Use of This Venerable Old Building, where it can be seen and appreciated for what it is and was!
….This Appreciation Can Be Similar To What The Narrator Says (After Their Visit To Yellowstone National Park), About His Motel Cabins at Gardiner, MT.
…. I notice things about the cabin too, which I point out to Chris. The windows are all double-hung and sash-weighted. The doors click shut without looseness. All the moldings are perfectly mitered. There’s nothing arty about all this, it’s just well done
….AND This ALSO “Fits” The Narrator’s Discussion =>
…. That wall in Korea that Phædrus saw was an act of technology. It was beautiful, but not because of any masterful intellectual planning or any scientific supervision of the job, or any added expenditures to "stylize" it. It was beautiful because the people who worked on it had a way of looking at things that made them do it right unselfconsciously. They didn’t separate themselves from the work in such a way as to do it wrong.
….. There is the center of the whole solution.

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(Photo = 110-1042c ...... ZMM Page = 243 ...... WayPt = 262w 5257ft)