Rock Safety Walls – Feather River Canyon CA

City:
Feather River Canyon, CA

Site Type:
Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels, Infrastructure and Utilities

New Deal Agencies:
Works Progress Administration (WPA), Work Relief Programs

Started:
1936

Completed:
1937

Quality of Information:
Minimal

Marked:
No

Site Survival:
Extant

Description

Three tunnels were built by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) along the Feather River Highway in northeast California.  The tunnels were the final pieces in the construction of the Feather River highway (highway 70)  by the State of California (1928-37). The tunnels were blasted through solid granite in and around Grizzly Dome and some of the removed stone was used for rock safety walls along the highway north and south of the tunnels.  It is impossible to determine which walls were constructed by WPA workers and which might have been built earlier by California state highway workers.

Source notes

"Feather River Scenic Byway" by Frank Brehm at: https://www.wplives.com/frc/driving_the_canyon.php

Site originally submitted by Richard A Walker on July 30, 2018.

Location Info


Tobin, CA 95980
Butte County

Location notes: Address is random- central to the canyon

Coordinates: 39.9379409, -121.30857689999999

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