Lanterna Rally

Author: Source Wikipedia

Publisher: Booksllc.Net

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 30

ISBN-13: 9781230773339

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 29. Chapters: Beartooth Highway, Black River National Forest Scenic Byway, Buffalo Bill Cody Scenic Byway, Cascade Lakes Scenic Byway, Cherohala Skyway, Emigrant Trail, Flaming Gorge-Uintas Scenic Byway, Grand Mesa Scenic and Historic Byway, Hells Canyon Scenic Byway, Historic Columbia River Highway, McKenzie Pass - Santiam Pass Scenic Byway, Mountain Loop Highway, Mountain Waters Scenic Byway, Mount Evans Scenic Byway, Natchez Trace Parkway, River Road National Scenic Byway, Russell-Brasstown Scenic Byway, San Juan Skyway, Seward Highway, Sierra Vista Scenic Byway, Talimena Scenic Drive, The Energy Loop: Huntington/Eccles Canyons Scenic Byway, West Cascades Scenic Byway, Whitefish Bay National Forest Scenic Byway, White Mountain Trail, Wyoming Centennial Scenic Byway. Excerpt: The Historic Columbia River Highway is an approximately 75-mile (120 km) scenic highway in the U.S. state of Oregon between Troutdale and The Dalles, built through the Columbia River Gorge between 1913 and 1922. As the first planned scenic roadway in the United States, it has been recognized in numerous ways, including a listing on the National Register of Historic Places as a National Historic Landmark, designation as a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Civil Engineers, and considered a "destination unto itself" as an All-American Road by the U.S. Secretary of Transportation. The historic roadway was bypassed in by the present Columbia River Highway No. 2 (Interstate 84) from the 1930s to the 1950s, leaving behind the old two-lane road. The road is now mostly owned and maintained by the state through the Oregon Department of Transportation as the Historic Columbia River Highway No. 100 (still partially marked as U.S. Route 30; see Oregon highways and routes) or the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department as the...