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McConnells Mill State Park is a 2,546 acres Pennsylvania state park in Lawrence County, Pennsylvania. The park features a deep scenic gorge with the restored watermill and a covered bridge at the bottom, accessible by a roadway that winds between large, room-sized boulders on the hillside.
McConnells Mill State Park was chosen by the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (DCNR) and its Bureau of Parks as one of "25 Must-See Pennsylvania State Parks" (Wikipedia)
An aerial view of a hillside with roadways in Abbotsford, BC., Canada, on a snowy day. The image appears two dimensional and does not reveal the steep hills, the homes and roadways are built on. The curving four lane road is following the contour of the hillside. The white trail in the lower half is Discovery Trail and the four lane roadway with yellow lines is Whatcom Road. A major power grid is faintly visible in the lower third of the landscape.
Does your neighborhood have one of these? Over the course of any given Sunday, or any other event for that matter, AT&T stadium focuses nearly 100,000 automobiles to this neighborhood! Taylor Swift generated nearly $150,000 people to this neighborhood each day.
Ozark Roadways, Ozark National Forest, Arkansas. I took a drive along scenic Highway 14 this morning, and was greeted by some beautiful fog. Great way to start off the day.
With so many things destroyed during the earthquake in the area, this is a new road and tunnel. Took a while, let's hope it works if they ever have another quake.
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Wild sunflower growing in the
old (abandoned/replaced) Hwy54.
Flint Hills region
Kansas
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The Riverside Drive Viaduct, built in 1900 by the US City of New York, was constructed to connect an important system of drives in Upper Manhattan by creating a high-level boulevard extension of Riverside Drive over the barrier of Manhattanville Valley to the former Boulevard Lafayette in Washington Heights.
F. Stuart Williamson was the chief engineer for the municipal project, which constituted a feat of engineering technology. Despite the viaduct's important utilitarian role as a highway, the structure was also a strong symbol of civic pride, inspired by America’s late 19th-century City Beautiful movement. The viaduct’s original roadway, wide pedestrian walks and overall design were sumptuously ornamented, creating a prime example of public works that married form and function. An issue of the Scientific American magazine in 1900 remarked that the Riverside Drive Viaduct's completion afforded New Yorkers “a continuous drive of ten miles along the picturesque banks of the Hudson and Harlem Rivers.”[1]
The elevated steel highway of the viaduct extends above Twelfth Avenue from 127th Street (now Tiemann Place) to 135th Street and is shouldered by masonry approaches. The viaduct proper was made of open hearth medium steel, comprising twenty-six spans, or bays, whose hypnotic repetition is much appreciated from underneath at street level. The south and north approaches are of rock-faced Mohawk Valley, N.Y., limestone with Maine granite trimmings, the face work being of coursed ashlar. The girders over Manhattan Explore - #40
Street (now 125th Street) were the largest ever built at the time. The broad plaza effect of the south approach was designed to impart deliberate grandeur to the natural terminus of much of Riverside Drive’s traffic as well as to give full advantage to the vista overlooking the Hudson River and New Jersey Palisades to the west.
The viaduct underwent a two-year long reconstruction in 1961 and another in 1987. (source: Wikipedia)
Entering the Ozark National Scenic Riverways via Hwy k in Shannon County, Missouri. The road travels over a ridge known locally as the Devil's Backbone.
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crushed pine cone found on exit roadway....
Overland Park Arboretum and Botanical Gardens (Kansas)
An unusually harsh winter has been especially hard on Chicago area roadways. Pavement is coming up all over, to the point where corporations are offering to patch and brand the holes (KFC) and locals are buying cold patch with their own funds and filling in the damage themselves. The missing asphalt here is near the intersection of State Street and Kinzie and has revealed brick pavers that may well date to the 1872 reconstruction following the Great Chicago Fire.
"pavement which J. K. Thompson, city superintendent, laid in the year 1864, at the intersection of North State and Kinzie Streets, in the city of Chicago... was made of wooden blocks, six inches square, set in rows, on an earth foundation... It was put down by him as an experiment. It proved sucessful, and was in use until the great fire in Chicago in 1871..."
At which time, it burned, along with about 500 feet of similar pavement around the LaSalle Street Tunnel, and any other wooden boulevards in the path of the fire.
I'd read before that having overbuilt with wood had contributed to the Fire, but until I looked up the "cobblestone" systems chicago was using, I had no idea that even the streets were flammable.
"Oops."
--J. K. Thompson, 1871
I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee;
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.
And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet's wings.
I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart's core.
W.B Yeats
I took my nephew, Keith, here with me for his first visit to Montana, out to a secret and remote place about 5 miles from my home outside of Stevensville, MT to show him what the "real" Montana looks like. Well, one of the real Montanas. Probably only one of the many magnificent spots in the marvelous Treasure State, where one can drive or hike to a spot where there is almost nothing man-made, and only the gloriousness of Nature to behold. Where the landscape looks very much like it might have looked in 1880. Or even 1780.
Yes. Certainly, there is the exception of the graded dirt and gravel roadway, and the presence of tire tracks, which informs the viewer that there are indeed ranches and ranchers in the vicinity. And so, yes, I must admit that there are those minor exceptions to the "unspoiled by the ravages of man" theme.
The sparkle of sunlight hitting barbed wire fence gets a pass.
I hereby decree it.
But this is a place that is very much off the beaten track of where most people live, work, shop and make their presence felt. This is the open range, and the land, primarily, of cattle, horses, ranches, dust, and silence, but for the bellowing of distant cattle calling to their calves or to their fellow herd-members.
A purposeful attempt was made to show my nephew around the most beautiful, natural areas of the Bitterroot Valley in the course of his short visit, and we accomplished that goal by hiking the famous and beloved Kootenai Creek Trail, by walking riverside at the new Skalkaho Bend River park, located in front of the majestic Bitterroot Mountains (here in the background), and a visit to the gorgeous Lee Metcalf Wildlife Refuge just to the north of the little town of Stevensville, which, in 1841, was the first permanent settlement in what would become the state of Montana in 1889. We then capped off the visit with a float and fish down the Blackfoot River near the town of Bonner. We are now both suffering from the condition known as OSNBS. Overdosing on Sensational Natural Beauty Syndrome. I highly recommend it.
Nephew Keith hails from Orlando, Florida, is very happily married and has four lovely daughters, and the idea was to show him something new and different from his normal environment, for that is what vacations are designed to do. In that respect, the mission was accomplished successfully in very short order, a very pleasant reunion in all respects out here in what is still the Great American West, as it has been called. And as it truly remains to this great day.
This roadway runs through the ground floor of a building on the SAIT (Southern Alberta Institute of Technology) campus in northwest Calgary.
C. J.R. Devaney
February 26th, 2022 marked the second to last day of normal operation on the Chicago South Shore’s famous 1.8 mile stretch of street running on 10th and 11th streets in Michigan City Indiana. The railroad and the community have shared this stretch of roadway since 1908, and over the past 114 years much has changed. Michigan City and the surrounding areas have changed, the railroad has changed and modernized with the times, but one of the things that, for the most part, has stayed relatively the same is the presence of the Chicago South Shore & South Bend railroad and its interurban and freight trains running down the middle of the streets. The community and railroad have coexisted fairly well over the past 114 years considering trains and motorists share the same piece of roadway and the proximity of homes and businesses to the railroad.
However, change is inevitable whether we like it or not I guess, and soon the famous street running will be significantly altered. The streets will close and vehicle traffic will be detoured onto alternate routes. Interurban passenger service will use buses to bridge this stretch of railroad, and freight traffic will mostly run at night. Once the $500 million project is complete the vehicle traffic will return to a new one-way road, the interurban passenger and freight trains will once again run on a more normal schedule but will return to a new double track main through town. The project is designed to help with congestion, efficiency, and safety through Michigan City. But at the same time it comes at a loss of the famous street running that was a time capsule glimpse back into a forgotten era of railroading over 100 years ago.
As the sun dips down close to the horizon on this late February day, a pair of CSS SD38-2s run light down 10th street, as people from all over flocked to Michigan City to document the final moves of normal operations down what could be the most famous stretch of street running left in North America.