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Shenandoah National Park
SKYLINE DRIVE
Virginia
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SKYLINE DRIVE Skyline Drive was documented in 1996-97 by the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER), a division of the National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior,as part of a long-range program to document historically significant engineering and industrial works in the United States. The 1996 Skyline Drive, Shenandoah National Park Roads and Bridges Recording Project was sponsored by the NPS Roads and Bridges Program, Shenandoah National Park, and Iowa State University's Department of Landscape Architecture. Funding was provided by the Federal Highway Administration's Federal Lands Highway Office, through the NPS Park Roads and Parkways Program. This brochure was produced in cooperation with the HABS/HAER Foundation. Design by: Elizabeth A. Harvey
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As motororists approach Range View Overlook (mile 17.1), dense forest vegetation gives way to a spectacular highland vista of the Blue Ridge's western slope, the Shenandoah valley and the distant Alleghenies. (Bill Faust, HAER) |
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