Trail Ridge Road, Between Estes Park & Grand Lake, Estes Park, Larimer County, CO
Summary
Significance: Trail Ridge Road has national, state, and local significance as an engineering feat -the highest continuous highway in the United States and for its role in the development of the Rocky Mountain National Park road system.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N206
Survey number: HAER CO-31
Building/structure dates: 1926-1949 Initial Construction
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 84000242
Tags
Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Wallace, Steven A
Lafferty, W L
W.A. Colt & Son
L.T. Lawler Construction Company
Bureau of Public Roads
Luke E Smith & Co
Colt, W A
Kittredge, Frank
Vint, Thomas
Bracken, Harry L
Collier & Latimer, Inc
Selander, Edward
Everly & Allison
Lindstrom & Son
Standard Oil Company
Hallenbeck, C V
Jensen, Carl J
Larson Constrtuction Company
Gerard Knutson
Northwestern Engineering Company
Brown Construction Company
Siegrist Construction Company
Flatiron Paving Company
Peter Kiewit Sons' Construction Company
Sterling Paving Company
Quin, Richard, historian
Thallheimer, Arnold, photographer
Grogan, Brian C, photographer
Location
Estes Park (Colo.), 40.37721, -105.52167
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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