Trail Ridge Road Cultural Landscape Report, Rocky Mountain National Park, Volume I and II
Architectural Resources Group, Liz Sargent HLA, Rivanna Archaeological Services, LLC, Provost & Pritchard Consulting Group. 2023. Trail Ridge Road Cultural Landscape Report, Rocky Mountain National Park, Volume I and II. Cultural Landscape Report. National Park Service. Regional Office, Santa Fe, New Mexico
The primary goal of treatment is the long-term preservation and protection of existing Trail Ridge Road Cultural Landscape features that contribute to the historic character, setting, and significance of the site, while addressing the need to manage visitor use, address contemporary safety issues, and protect fragile and sensitive cultural and natural resources. Treatment recommendations for the Trail Ridge Road Cultural Landscape build on the existing conditions, as well as the research and analysis components of the CLR to produce a comprehensive stewardship strategy for the entire Trail Ridge Road corridor. The CLR provides a series of treatment guidelines that form the basis of treatment for the Trail Ridge Road Cultural Landscape. The Part 1 CLR provides historic and existing conditions documentation, analyzes the significance of the property, and identifies landscape features contributing to significance. The Part 2 CLR provides guidance for future management in the form of a treatment plan. Trail Ridge Road is a 50-mile-long historic travel corridor that spans the Southern Rocky Mountains and the Continental Divide of the Americas. The highest continuous paved roadway in the United States, Trail Ridge Road reaches a maximum elevation of 12,183 feet while traversing alpine tundra above the tree line for nearly one-third of its length. Trail Ridge Road affords numerous opportunities for visitors to connect with the surrounding landscape, ranging from overlooks and pullouts to visitor centers, picnic areas, campgrounds, and trailheads. The road exhibits built features representative of both the New Deal era of the 1930s and early 1940s when the NPS employed Rustic style architecture and naturalistic landscape design principles in the construction of road camp structures, stone guidewalls, retaining walls, and culverts, many of which were built by Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) enrollees, as well as later improvements reflective of the Mission 66 program that introduced a more modern aesthetic between 1956 and 1966.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Architectural Resources Group; Liz Sargent HLA; Rivanna Archaeological Services, LLC; Provost & Pritchard Consulting Group
- Date of Issue
- 2023-09
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- IMR , ROMO
- Keywords
- Architecture, Engineering, Fall River Pass Historic District, Landscape Architecture, Mission 66, national park highway, park road, Politics/Government, Recreation/Tourism, Transportation
- Subjects
- CRIS-CL: 890027: Trail Ridge Road (890027)
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 4.0 International