Historic Roads in the National Park System

Cover

Contents

Preface

Introduction

Early Roads

The Development of Park Roads

Teamwork/Cooperative Efforts

Evolution of Parkways

World War II and Beyond

Understanding and Managing Historic Park Roads

Bibliography

Historic Roads in the National Park System

Perhaps the biggest contributions to the aesthetics of road design made by National Park Service landscape architects dealt with the design of the road prism, including the following sheet on warping cuts and fill slopes, produced in 1937.

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