FDR's great-granddaughter re-creates Glacier National Park trip

WEST GLACIER, Mont. (AP) — The Obamas are not the only ones with presidential connections to hit national parks this summer.

Seventy-five years after President Franklin Delano Roosevelt traveled on the newly built Going-to-the-Sun Road in Glacier National Park, his great-granddaughter re-created the journey.

Kate Roosevelt of Seattle said the trip allowed her to imagine how things were in 1934.

"It's really fun to think of them doing this, just like we are," Kate Roosevelt said. She even unpacked a picnic lunch at the top of Logan Pass, as the president had done.

Both made the trip in Cadillac touring cars.

After the 52-mile trip, FDR delivered a national radio address from Two Medicine Chalet in which he said: "Today, for the first time in my life, I have seen Glacier National Park. Perhaps I can best express to you my thrill and delight by saying that I wish every American, old and young, could have been with me today."

He added that he hoped "that each and every one of you, who can possibly find the means and opportunity for so doing, will visit our national parks and use them as they are intended to be used."