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Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park Tour Roads
Georgia and Tennessee
THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE ERA
National military parks were transferred to the National Park Service in 1933. The NPS and US Bureau of Public Roads jointly undertook a major reconstruction of tour roads throughout the system. Many primitive roads were widened and paved with concrete or asphalt to support the increased travel loads of automobiles and increasing visitation. Roadside landscaping and cleanup were also a priority for park service managers.
NPS and BPR designers utilized modern materials and techniques to create bridges that harmonized with the stone spans constructed by the War Department forty years earlier. (Pete Brooks, HAER) |
| Introduction | Acadia | Blue Ridge Parkway | Chickamauga and Chattanooga | Colonial Parkway | Generals Highway | George Washington Memorial Parkway | Great Smoky Mountains | Mount Rainier | Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway | Shenandoah's Skyline Drive | Southwest Circle Tour | Vicksburg | Yellowstone | Yosemite |
