Trail Ridge Road, Between Estes Park & Grand Lake, Estes Park, Larimer County, CO

Significance: Trail Ridge Road has national, state, and local significance as an engineering feat -the highest continuous highway in the United States and for its role in the development of the Rocky Mountain National Park road system.

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N206

Survey number: HAER CO-31

Building/structure dates: 1926-1949 Initial Construction

National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 84000242

mission 66 program transportation concession estes park colo trail ridge trail ridge road estes estes park grand lake larimer larimer county colorado harry l bracken brown construction company bureau of public roads inc collier and latimer w a colt everly and allison flatiron paving company gerard knutson brian c grogan c v hallenbeck historic american engineering record carl j jensen frank kittredge lt lawler construction company w l lafferty larson constrtuction company lindstrom and son luke e smith and co northwestern engineering company peter kiewit sons construction company richard quin edward selander siegrist construction company standard oil company sterling paving company arnold thallheimer thomas vint wa colt and son steven a wallace photo ultra high resolution high resolution mountains mountain pass library of congress national register of historic places

1969 - 1980

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