Category 9 - Highway Improvements on Publicly Owned Land
Merit Award
Ash River Visitors Center Road
Voyageurs National Park, International Falls, Minnesota
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Eastern Federal Lands Highway Division, FHWA |
| Contractors: | Hoover Construction Company, Virginia, Minnesota
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The old, narrow dirt road to the visitor's center and boat ramp was very dangerous and often impassable due to inclement weather. The project was designed to provide a modern scenic road, adequate passing areas, vista pull off, and year round access to Kabtegoma Lake for boating and snowmobiling. An example of innovative engineering was the use of a series of pipes and granular material that permitted a free exchange of water under the roadway from both sides of a wetland.
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