Rim Drive Cultural Landscape Report

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Excerpt from Rim Drive Cultural Landscape Report: Crater Lake National Park, OregonDrivers also had to contend with the ubiquitous dust, as well as many steep grades (particularly on the Rim Road), and numerous sharp curves. Steel and the nps agreed on the need to reconstruct these roads, especially in the wake of rapidly ex panding automobile ownership during the 19203, a time when cars became both faster and heavier. Highway designers responded with wider roadways and length ened curves, as well as efforts to reduce grades. Funding to begin reconstruction of Rim Road finally came in 1931. By that time, Steel tried to make a case for placing a portion of the reconstituted circuit road inside the caldera left by the collapse of Mount Mazama, a scheme that nps officials considered chimerical due to the prob lems posed by a highway placed on unstable rock and the likelihood of defacing cliffs rising high above Crater Lake.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.