Driving Through Time - The Digital Blue Ridge Parkway
About this Image
| Title | 12" x 12" box culvert |
| Title Note | Side angle |
| Date | December 1, 1940 |
| Description | Construction of a tunnel using a box culvert. A car is visible in the background. Photograph taken by A.S. Burns on October 1, 1940, along Section 2F of the Blue Ridge Parkway, near Station 652+74 at mile post 288.8. |
| Commentary | This photograph of construction of an underpass shows just how much construction was done to create a tunnel. Taken from the viewpoint of a driver on the Parkway, this photograph allows one to see how flat the Parkway remained and how far down workers had to dig in order to create the tunnels. Parkway planners liked tunnels because they limited the number of access points. There are twenty-six underpasses on the Parkway, twenty-five of them in North Carolina and three of them are in section 2F. This particular underpass was for State Road 1533, Aho Road. |
| Location |
Location Name: Milepost 288 Parkway Milepost: 288.0 |
| Creator Individual | A.S. Burns |
| Tags |
Bridge construction
Construction Culverts Overpass construction Photographs Road construction Tunnels Watauga County (N.C.) |
| Credit | Courtesy National Park Service, Blue Ridge Parkway |
