Arches National Park Main Entrance Road, Beginning at U.S. Highway 191, approximately 6 miles north of Moab, Moab, Grand County, UT
Summary
Significance: Planned during the 1940s, the Main Entrance Road utilized standards of design developed cooperatively between the National Park Service and the Bureau of Public Roads, minimizing negative impact on the natural features while allowing visitor access to previously inaccessible areas of the park.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N67
Survey number: HAER UT-70
Building/structure dates: 1941-1957 Initial Construction
Tags
Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Civilian Conservation Corps
Alleman, Carl
Strong Construction Company
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
Johnson, Lyndon B
Nixon, Richard
Ringhoffer, Alexander
Mather, Stephen
Schmidt, Henry G
Richey, Charles A
Miller, Horace
Quin, transmitter
French, Christine Madrid, historian
Grogan, Brian C, photographer
Location
Moab (Utah), 38.57332, -109.54984
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html