Contact Us, Lincoln Highway Special Resource Study

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Ruth Heikkinen
National Park Service
Midwest Regional Office
1709 Jackson Street
Omaha, NE 68102
email: Ruth_Heikkinen@nps.gov
phone: 402-661-1846

To email comments on Preliminary Management Alternatives click HERE.
To email comments on Lincoln Highway Special Resource Study/Environmental Assessment, click HERE.

Three rotating photographs depict:
1) Group of painters restoring Lincoln Highway signs. Courtesy of Carol Ahlgren
2) This early 1920s view of the Lincoln Highway on the west slope of Pennsylvania's Laurel Ridge shows the type of accommodations available to early highway travelers. The revival style and vernacular form of road houses like the Mountain Inn precluded architectural reflections of modernity that emerged along the commercial roadside in the later part of the decade.
3) Due to its endless stream of motor-bound transients, the Lincoln Highway was responsible for creating its own "places," commercial contentrations of tourist services located well beyond the boundaries of any established town. Covey's Little America in western Wyoming was one of the most well-known Lincoln Highway places in the west. It is still serving travelers from nearby Interstate-80 today.
Photos 2 and 3 courtesy of Kevin Patrick

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