- 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.
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