Maria's passport

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Maria's passport
The Marias Pass obelisk and statue of John F. Stevens.
Compass direction	west	east
Pass height	1588  m
State	Montana ( USA )
Watershed	South Fork Flathead River → Flathead River → Clark Fork → Pend Oreille River → Columbia River	Two Medicine River → Marias River → Missouri River → Mississippi River
Valley locations	Essex	Browning
expansion	US Highway 2 , BNSF Railway
Built	1890
Mountains	Lewis Range ( Rocky Mountains )
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Coordinates	48 ° 19 ′ 6 ″  N , 113 ° 21 ′ 19 ″  W Coordinates: 48 ° 19 ′ 6 ″  N , 113 ° 21 ′ 19 ″  W

The Marias Pass is a 1,588 meter high mountain pass near Glacier National Park in the northwest of the US state Montana .

The pass crosses the North American Continental Divide near the Lewis Range along the border of the Lewis and Clark National Forest and the Flathead National Forest . In winter it is the only passable pass within the USA north of the Rogers Pass, also located in Montana .

The first white American to come to the pass was John Frank Stevens , who worked as a design engineer for the Great Northern Railway . Today a stretch of the BNSF Railway , which is also used by the Empire Builder , an Amtrak passenger train on the Chicago - Seattle route, and US Highway 2 run over the pass.

The railway line over the pass is part of Microsoft Train Simulator , a railway simulator for PC.