Abstract

America's national park roads and parkways are outstanding design achievements exemplifying the harmonious integration of highway engineering and landscape architecture. By designing roadways to showcase scenery with minimal impact on their surroundings, the National Park Service created an internationally renowned road system that provides access to America's most treasured landscapes while standing as a remarkable social, artistic, and technological achievement in its own right. From 1988 to 2002, the Historic American Engineering Record conducted a documentation project that produced more than 4,000 photographs, 476 measured and interpretive drawings, and more than 10,000 pages of written history. These reports document the roads' physical characteristics and articulate their social, technological, and aesthetic influences. Not every park could be surveyed, but the most prominent roads were documented in detail. Several non—Park Service roads were also documented, including the Historic Columbia River ...

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