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Item Title
All Year Highway, Between Arch Rock & Yosemite Valley, El Portal, Mariposa County, CA
LocationBetween Arch Rock & Yosemite Valley,
El Portal, CA
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1968.
Notes
Survey number HAER CA-150
Unprocessed field note material exists for this structure (N841).
Building/structure dates:
1907 initial construction
Significance: Built by the Yosemite Valley Railroad to connect its terminus of El Portal with Yosemite National Park, the road defied the conventional wisdom that a road could not be constructed up the rugged Merced River Canyon. The old wagon road was reconstructed by the National Park Service in the 1920s concurrently with the construction by the state of a connecting high-speed motor road from Merced and Mariposa. The low-level road provided access to Yosemite National Park in all seasons, and was a major factor in the subsequent development of winter sports activities in the park.
Subjects
TransportationHighways
Related Names
Yosemite Valley Rail Road
Alger, Russell A.
Coulterville & Yo Semite Turnpike Company
Yosemite Transportation Company
Benson, Maj. H. C.
Forsyth, William W.
Grogan, Brian, Photographer
Quin, Richard H., Historian
Collection
Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress)
Contents
Photograph caption(s):
1. LOOKING SW ALONG HIGHWAY AT RETAINING WALL LOCATED APPROXIMATELY .25 MI. WEST OF ELEPHANT ROCK.
2. LOOKING EAST ALONG HIGHWAY AT RETAINING WALL LOCATED APPROXIMATELY 200 YDS. WEST OF BEAR ROCK.
3. LOOKING WEST FROM SAME CAMERA POSITION AS NO. 2.
4. ENTRANCE SIGN ON HIGHWAY AT PARK BOUNDARY LINE.
5. LOOKING WEST AT RETAINING WALL WEST OF WINDY POINT IN MERCED RIVER CANYON.
6. LOOKING WEST ALONG HIGHWAY AT RETAINING WALL LOCATED 100 YDS. EAST OF JUNCTION OF OLD COULTERVILLE ROAD.
7. VIEW EAST AT SAME WALL DEPICTED IN NO. 6.
8. VIEW WEST OF RETAINING WALL AT ELEPHANT ROCK.
9. VIEW EAST OF WALL AT ELEPHANT ROCK FROM SAME CAMERA LOCATION AS NO. 8.
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