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Mount Rainier Roads and Bridges
Mount Rainier National Park, Washington
MODERN ROADS FOR MODERN TIMES
In 1925 the National Park Service signed an agreement with the Bureau of Public Roads (BPR), U.S. Department of Agriculture, under which the BPR would take responsibility for all major road projects in the national park system. The BPR immediately took over the reconstruction of the Nisqually Road. By 1930, the road had been widened and paved, enabling visitors to reach Paradise in greater safety and comfort.
The BPR also began conducting new location surveys for roads on the west and east sides of the park and for a spur road to Yakima Park. The proposed West Side Road was planned to link the Nisqually Road near the park entrance with the Mowich Lake and Carbon River areas in the northwest corner of the park. A new road on the east side would connect the Ohanapecosh Hot Springs area (then outside the park) with the new state road at Cayuse Pass. Construction of the proposed road to Yakima Park would largely entail the reconstruction of the old Glacier Basin mining road as far as the White River crossing, at which point it would climb a series of switchbacks to reach the high meadows at Yakima Park where the new "Sunrise" development would be constructed.
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