- City:
- Yellowstone National Park, WY
- Site Type:
- Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels, Infrastructure and Utilities
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Description
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) worked to improve South Rim Drive in Yellowstone National Park, from Chittenden Bridge to Artist Point.
Cassity: “Chittenden Bridge to Artist Point – The remnant of old road scars and road grades were sloped and regraded to the original ground forms. Trees and sage were planted to eliminate the scars.”
Source notes
Building Up Wyoming: Depression-Era Federal Projects in Wyoming, 1929–1943. Michael Cassity. Prepared for the Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office ... (pg. 154).
https://www.michaelcassity.org/uploads/1/2/7/7/12777320/wyodepressionerafedprojects_mpdf.pdf (accessed Jul. 21, 2022)
Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on July 20, 2022.
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