Proposed line of rail roads and hotels – Vintage Wall Art
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Proposed line of rail roads and hotels
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Few parts of the park's history are as tangled as the question of how visitors should reach its interior, and this 1912 map shows one of the schemes that was debated during those years. It sketches routes for rail lines and hotel sites across the plateau, at a time when the park had been set aside in 1872 but still had only rough roads and stagecoaches. Railroads had already reached the park's northern and western gateways, and the question of extending tracks inside the boundaries pitted tourism promoters against those who wanted the land kept wild. The map is a useful record of how far those ambitions reached before the 1916 act created the National Park Service and set limits on development.
| Created / published | 1912 |
|---|---|
| Original scan | 3,750 × 3,152 px · prints to 12 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | Proposed line of rail roads and hotels 1912 |
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