Show MOST SCENIC HIGHWAY IN UNITED STATES TO BE BUILT AILT IN SOUTHERN T UTAH with tho the completion of the now new i zion national park mt alt carmel highway work on oil which was started a few clays ago and also with the con of the lees leea forry ferry bridga southern so athern utah will bo be the mecca of tile tho tourist of tho the entire country within the next fow few years to the towns located along the famous old arrowhead trail in southern utah which flitch in tho the future will bo be logged and known as highway 91 11 the wilding building of those two projects means a vast increase in travel an increase that will double and quadruple the tourist business of our town as the years goes by tho the now new zion national park mt aft carniol carmol highway will enable hryce bryce canyon national monument to become a a national park then to bind it together with zion national park and tile tho north rim ittin of grand canyon national park as one unito unite in a great scenic loop at a cost of over a nill million dollars and which will bo be completed plated only after two years of work tile the construction of tho the road itsell itself Is IB an engineering problem of the first magnitude dr L 1 I howes deputy chief engineer of tho the united states bureau of public roads in charge of road construction in national parks in eleven western states lias has referred to it as the biggest gin glo job tile tho bureau lias has ever under balcan As is the case with all stream eroded canyons the pine creek gorgo gorge narrows down own and finally thoro there Is room between the walls walla for only the crook creek itself due to this fact a total of feet or considerably over a mile of tho the section in the park will be in solid rock tunnel a most unusual feature from fi oni tho the standpoint chit of highway construction although the tunnel will be continuous after it is once entered galleries will be a broken out along the face face of the cliff tor for ventilation lighting and to servo as observation points the longest section between galler galleries leg will be 1500 and all told thoro there will IQ a six aix such openings looking out from these points th the a views will bo a sensational to say the t ie least the observer will find the massive bulk of east templo temple rising 3 GO feet above the creek bed and dominating tile tho entire landscape to the north while westerly the summit of west temple and the towers of tho the virgin stand in old bold relief against the sky in the foreground will bo a seen tho great arch of zion feet long feet high and 90 foot feet back to tile the supporting wall another striking feature re from both an engineering and scenic standpoint wll bo be tile the five groat great zig which will carry tile roadway up tip over tho talus slope to tile tho foot ot of the cliff where it will enter the tunnel nearly four mile of roadway will IQ be used in this section to make the necess necessary ary elevation in plans for tho the conati construction tic tion for the park section every precaution has hag leon been taken to protect the landscape features in order that the natural beauty of the area traversed will not le be destroyed no part of tile the road will bo a in the main zion canyon except the short section necessary to cross tile tho valloy valley and river to tho the mouth of the pine creek canyon so carefully lias has it been laid out that only a few hundred foot feet of tho the now road will be visible from tho the present main road up the central gorge it it were necessary to mako make scares upon tho the primal walls of zion the road would never be built in order to understand just what the now road will accomplish fix in your mind the location of bryco bryce canyon national monument cedar breaks and grand canyon national park using zion as a central point As the crow tiles flies bryce is about four miles northeasterly cedar breaks is north about thirty miles and tho the grand canyon is south about ninety miles by road it is now miles to bryce miles to cedar breaks and miles to grand canyon when the new road Is built it will bo ba 88 70 and miles respectively it will be a no harder to make these distances than it Is ia at present to drive around the famous yellowstone loop |