U.S. Department
of Transportation
Federal Highway
Administration

Associate Administrator
John Baxter
202-366-9494
john.baxter@dot.gov
www.fhwa.dot.gov/flh/

Federal Lands Highway
provides planning,
design, and engineering
services to support the
highways and bridges
that provide access to
and within federally
owned lands.

Western
Federal Lands

Division Engineer
Clara Conner
360-619-7710
clara.conner@fhwa.
dot.gov
www.wfl.fhwa.dot.gov

August 2007
See FLH website for sources

Fact Sheet

Washington FLHP

• National Park Service (13 units)

• U.S. Forest Service (8)

• Bureau of Indian Affairs/ Tribal Governments (29)

• Fish and Wildlife Service (32)

• This percentage includes Federal lands that are not part of the FLHP core program and not depicted on the map

The Federal Lands Highway Program in Washington. The Mather Memorial Parkway (MMP), a 55-mile section of State Route 410, is located in the Mount Baker Snoqualmie National Forest and Mount Rainier National Park (MORA), and is part of the 85 mile long Chinook Scenic Byway, also designated an All American Road. Western Federal Lands (WFL) began working on the MMP in the 1990s in partnership with the U.S. Forest Service, National Park Service (NPS), and Washington State Department of Transportation. Projects included the East Side Retrofit ($2,734,000), where the Forest Highway (FH) Program funded roadway improvements, and the Greenwater to Crystal Mountain west side reconstruction, another FH-funded ($9,313,000) project that included $5,400,000 of Public Lands Discretionary and $1,000,000 of State funding.

Work continued with Park Roads and Parkways Program (PRP) funds in MORA on what was designated in 1996 a National Historic Landmark roadway; $13,127,239 in PRP funding was provided to help increase mobility of travelers across the Cascade Mountains. In 2000, NPS and WFL completed a Chinook Scenic Byway Corridor Charrette, using PRP Alternative Transportation funds; this won an American Planning Association award for collaboration, and the reconstruction project inside MORA won an award from the State Historic Preservation Office.

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