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The Iron Mountain portion of the road is not maintained in the winter. The road, like several other scenic roads in the Black Hills , was originally laid out by Governor Peter Norbeck , specifically to create a very scenic, slow-speed road for tourists.
The Peter Norbeck Scenic Byway consists of a loop made up of four numbered highways. The byway is part of US 16A, the Iron Mountain Road, south of Keystone. This portion of the highway includes several tunnels and pigtail bridges. The byway enters Custer State Park along its eastern edge and turns west at its intersection with SD 36.
Iron Mountain is a peak in the Black Hills of South Dakota, notable for the fact that U.S. Route 16A was purposely built directly over its summit to provide scenic ...
A post office called Iron Mountain was established in 1846, and remained in operation until 1978. [3] The railroad history of the area runs deep, as the railways were key to the distribution of the minerals being mined. [4] The Iron Mountain and Southern Railway was prominent during the development of the Iron Mountain community in the 19th ...
A pigtail bridge on Iron Mountain Road. In the Black Hills of South Dakota, a particular form of spiral bridge, locally called a 'pigtail bridge', was introduced in 1932 by Cecil Clyde Gideon, the self-taught superintendent of Custer State Park turned highway designer.
WYO 211 resumes north of the Laramie-Platte County Line along Iron Mountain Road and Jordan Road (County Route 106–2). Now named Horse Creek Road, WYO 211 reaches the Town of Chugwater at 63.03 miles (101.44 km), and has a junction with I-25 / US 87 and Wyoming Highway 313 at 63.95 miles (102.92 km).
The A18 Mountain Road is shut from Ramsey and the Bungalow due to a build up of water on the Veranda. The Department of Infrastructure said t had made the carriageway "unsafe for travel", and a ...
The Iron Mountain Pump Plant sits adjacent to the east side of the range and the Colorado River Aqueduct traverses the range through the Iron Mountain Tunnel. [2] During World War II, from 1942 to 1944, near the Iron Mountains the US Army built Camp Iron Mountain to train troops and prepare them to do battle in North Africa to fight the Nazis.