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| mrh | Drive-thru wilderness | |
Voted 10/10 | The Gospel Hump in Idaho also had a road going into it, though it doesn't go all they way through. It enters from the northwest and loops down almost to the center of the wilderness. There is also a road coming into the east portion of the wilderness, but the non-wilderness around it is actually a broad lobe due to the several private mining claims along it being excluded from designation. | |
| Posted Oct 7, 2009 1:36 pm | ||
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| Arthur Digbee | Re: Drive-thru wilderness | |
Hasn't voted | Interesting. Did Congress draw the line up to the road (as in the Deam) or just put an exception in the authorizing legislation? | |
| Posted Oct 7, 2009 2:14 pm | ||
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| mrh | Re: Drive-thru wilderness | |
Voted 10/10 | I believe the former is the case, but am not entirely certain. | |
| Posted Oct 7, 2009 3:53 pm | ||
| nartreb | Another: Denali | |
Hasn't voted | A big chunk of the National Park is a designated Wilderness. A (limited-use, dirt) road runs through it from east to west, bisecting the Wilderness: the road terminates at Wonder Lake which is in the middle of the Park but outside the west edge of the Wilderness. Along the road are carve-outs from the Wilderness where there are developed visitors' centers. map edit: Here's another map where you can see that the wilderness boundaries were drawn to exclude the road. Interestingly, two of the largest carve-outs are at desolate river crossings, presumably to leave room to build a new bridge when needed. | |
| Posted Oct 7, 2009 2:38 pm | ||
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| Arthur Digbee | Re: Another: Denali | |
Hasn't voted | Yeah, the Wonder Lake Road really pisses me off because we knew better at the time. The Ken Burns film tells the story of Adolph Murie fighting the road -- Burns classified it as a "success" because it's limited use and unpaved, but I'd call it a "failure" because it's a road. | |
| Posted Oct 7, 2009 6:25 pm | ||
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| nartreb | Re: Another: Denali | |
Hasn't voted | Being unpaved just means that for a few days each spring, the road is continuously used by dump-trucks bringing gravel to repair the road. We joked that the dump-trucks were actually bringing the incredible swarms of mosquitoes that hatched a couple of days later. But I'm glad the road was there - we cached half our food at the park entrance and hitched a ride back when our roundabout route reached Eilson. It would have been very difficult to carry all of our food for three weeks. | |
| Posted Oct 7, 2009 11:10 pm | ||
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