This week, the U.S. Division of Transportation’s Federal Freeway Administration (FHWA) introduced a $22 million grant to the Nationwide Park Service (NPS) to “modernize and reconstruct a phase of the Norris to Golden Gate roadway in Yellowstone Nationwide Park.”
Golden Gate Canyon is within the northwestern part of Wyoming’s Yellowstone Nationwide Park. Constructing a bridge via this canyon was one of the costly tasks the unique builders confronted within the park. It’s prepared for an improve, which is able to profit the parks’ hundreds of thousands of tourists annually.
NPS calls the “exceptionally troublesome and difficult” highway “a vital transportation hyperlink to Yellowstone’s main locations.”
The newly funded Yellowstone Nationwide Park challenge will:
- Enhance security and pedestrian entry
- Alleviate rockfall hazards
- Improve automobile pullouts and parking areas
- Add new pedestrian services to separate individuals from site visitors
NPS hopes the enhancements to this vital roadway will help tourism and permit for a greater customer expertise.
“Good transportation components are key to experiencing the nice outdoor at Yellowstone Nationwide Park,” mentioned U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg within the press launch. “The grant for the Nationwide Park Service will make journey there extra handy for vacationers, residents, employees and native companies.”
Extra Initiatives
Yellowstone’s challenge is one among 5 receiving funding underneath FHWA’s Nationally Vital Federal Lands and Tribal Transportation Initiatives Program.
Different tasks embrace highway and freeway enhancements in Alabama and North Carolina and building of multi-use trails in Oregon and Illinois.
