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The tunnel was justified as a money-saving measure but was also suggested to challenge Bureau of Public Roads and National Park Service landscape architects. [13] With the official establishment of Shenandoah National Park in 1935, the CCC hired 300 men, most of whom were not local to the area, to continue to build Skyline Drive. [17]
View east along US 33 just after entering Virginia from West Virginia in Rockingham County. US 33 enters Virginia at about 3,450 feet (1,050 m) elevation at Dry River Gap on top of Shenandoah Mountain at the West Virginia state line, having climbed steeply from the community of Brandywine, West Virginia, in the valley of the South Fork of the South Branch of the Potomac River.
U.S. Route 522 (US 522) is a spur route of US 22 in the states of Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania.The U.S. Highway travels in a north-south direction, and runs 308.59 miles (496.63 km) from US 60 near Powhatan, Virginia, to its northern terminus at US 11 and US 15 near Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania.
The National Park Service reopened two southern sections of the Blue Ridge Parkway Oct. 30, restoring access to nearly 55 miles of the scenic byway.
US 29 Bus. north / SR 231 north (South Main Street) – Madison, Shenandoah National Park, Skyline Drive, Historic Downtown Madison: North end of concurrency with SR 231; northbound exit and southbound entrance 163.4: 263.0: SR 687 (Fairground Road) former SR 27 164.2: 264.3: SR 634 (Washington Street / Oak Park Road) – Madison, Locust Dale ...
Shenandoah: New Market: 277.1: 445.9: US 211 west (Old Cross Road / SR 1002) to I-81: South end of concurrency with US 211: 277.4: 446.4: US 211 east (East Lee Highway) – Luray, Shenandoah National Park, Skyline Drive, Luray Caverns: North end of concurrency with US 211 SR 767 (Quicksburg Road) to SR 42 – Quicksburg: former SR 262 west ...
The east–west major routes in the 1920s national grid system were those with two digit numbers ending with a zero (e.g. US 10, US 20, etc.). Virginia's other east–west highway of this type is US 60 , which extends in modern times from Virginia Beach across the middle section of the state to exit west of Covington .
Shenandoah National Park / ˈ ʃ ɛ n ə n ˌ d oʊ ə / (often / ˈ ʃ æ n ə n ˌ d oʊ ə /) is a national park of the United States that encompasses part of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia. The park is long and narrow, with the Shenandoah River and its broad valley to the west, and the rolling hills of the Virginia Piedmont to the east.