Project Timeline for Lincoln Highway Special Resource Study

[rotating photos] credits at bottom of page

Winter/Spring 2002
•Discussion of national significance, suitability and feasibility

Summer 2002
•Cultural landscape field study of routes that make up the Lincoln Highway

Fall 2002
•Initial discussions of preliminary management alternatives

Late Winter 2003
•Public workshops

Spring/Summer 2003
•Drafting of Lincoln Highway SRS, reflecting results of both the field study and the public workshops, and including an analysis of environmental impacts of alternatives

Fall 2003
•Publication of draft study for public comment

Winter/Spring 2004
•Revision and publication of final study

Three rotating photographs depict:
1) This section of Lincoln Highway across the Bonneville Salt Flats of northern Utah is coincident with the Victory Highway, and represents one of the few road battles lost by the Lincoln Highway Association. The LHA favored and invested substantial improvements in another desert crossing farther south known as the Goodyear Cut-off. When the state of Utah refused to recognize the route, the association was forced to relocate the Lincoln Highway north to the state road built between Salt Lake City and Wendover.
2) One of the largest hotels between Omaha and Cheyenne, the Hotel Yancey in Grand Island, Nebraska, was a must-stop for more well-off Lincoln Highway travelers.
3) The importance of clearly visible highway markings and all-weather paving are apparent in this c. 1920 view of the Lincoln Highway near Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania.
All photos courtesy of Kevin Patrick

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