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Nisqually Road, Between Longmire & Paradise, WA, Longmire, Pierce County, WA

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Nisqually Road, Between Longmire & Paradise, WA, Longmire, Pierce County, WA

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Summary

Significance: The first road constructed in Mount Rainier National Park, the Nisqually Road was built under the supervision of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and is significant for its especially careful relation to the landscape. The road was designed to rise on a gentle grade from the park entrance to Paradise Valley, the principal park development. It winds through lowland forests to Longmire, then begins to climb the south flank of the mountain, passing rushing waterfalls and striking vistas before reaching the lovely subalpine meadows of Paradise. The road was the first in the country to reach a glacier, a feat considered remarkable in its day. Reconstructed in the 1920s, the road remains the most important thoroughfare at Mount Rainier.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N64
Survey number: HAER WA-119
Building/structure dates: 1904-1915 Initial Construction
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 97000344

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Date

1969 - 1980
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Contributors

Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Ricksecker, Eugene V
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Bureau of Public Roads
Longmire, James
McKinley, William
Millis, John
Miller, A D
Feldschau & Chaffee
Tomlinson, O A
Miley & Fox
Philbrick & Nicholson, Incorporated
Tobin, J D
Hampshire, John
Davidson, E A
Mitchell Brothers
Emergency Conservation Works
Baseloff, Alex
Monohan, J H
Quin, Richard H, historian
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Location

lewis county46.74983, -121.81260
Google Map of 46.74983109999999, -121.8125968
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Library of Congress
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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

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