Dead Indian Canyon Bridge, Spanning Dead Indian Canyon at Cameron Approach Road, Grand Canyon, Coconino County, AZ
Summary
Significance: Dead Indian Canyon Bridge is significant for its association with the Cameron Approach Road, constructed in 1931-35 as the first modern automotive road linking the south rim of Grand Canyon National Park to the eastern Navajo Reservation and regional highways in northeastern Arizona. The bridge is also illustrative of roads and road structures built within special federal legislative authority to connect western national parks through a park-to-park highway system.
Survey number: HAER AZ-46
Building/structure dates: 1933- 1934 Initial Construction
Tags
Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Bureau of Public Roads
Vincent & Pringle
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad
Fred Harvey Company
Tillotson, Minor
Walker, C L
Cammerer, Arno
Collier, John
Morrison, C G
Brannan, J H
Carpenter, Thomas
Langley, Harry
Vint, Thomas
Kansas City Steel Company
Murphy, Gordon & Van Dyke
Albright, Horace
Anderson, Michael F, historian
Grogan, Brian C, photographer
Location
Grand Canyon (Ariz. : City), 36.05444, -112.14011
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