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Skyline Drive in Shenandoah National Park.
“When a road is once built, it is a strange thing how • it collects traffic, how every year as it goes on, more and more people are found to walk thereon, and others are raised up to repair and perpetuate it, and keep it alive. ”
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Alter millions of visitors have traveled its 97-mile length and marveled at the views from what has been described as “the boulevard of a thousand vistas atop the Blue Ridge,” the Skyline Drive is now undergoing a major maintenance and repair project for the first time.
The |3.6 million for the maintenance work is almost as much as it cost to build the drive a half century ago.
Following the skyline to afford views of both the Piedmont and the Shenandoah Valley, it gives Shenandoah National Park its character.
President Herbert Hoover is given popular credit for the construction of the road. And as the story goes, the vistas prompted his support of the project.
According to National Park Service Director Albright’s recollection, he was horseback riding with Hoover during the construction of the presidential camp in the Blue Ridge when the president remarked: u These mountains were just made for a highway. . .1 think everybody ought to have a chance to get the views from here.. .1 think they’re the greatest in the world, and I’ve been nearly everywhere in the world. . .People should have this sensation that I have, this exhilaration, this experience that I have riding along here. . .1 want you to consider undertaking a survey right away*,” Albright re
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