Me and some friends bike at the entrance tunnel of the road to nowhere in nc
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Me and some friends bike at the entrance tunnel of the road to nowhere in nc
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Cavalry... Calvary is where Jesus was Crucified.
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Road to no where? Looks like that that tunnel leads to a ceiling...
Wait, someone crucified my lawn guy? Not cool man.....
Wait, someone crucified my lawn guy? Not cool man.....
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In the 1930s and 1940s, Swain County gave up the majority of its private land to the Federal Government for the creation of Fontana Lake and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Hundreds of people were forced to leave the small Smoky Mountain communities that had been their homes for generations. With the creation of the Park, their homes were gone, and so was the road to those communities. Old Highway 288 was buried beneath the deep waters of Fontana Lake.
The Federal government promised to replace Highway 288 with a new road. Lakeview Drive was to have stretched along the north shore of Fontana Lake, from Bryson City to Fontana, 30 miles to the west. And, of special importance to those displaced residents, it was to have provided access to the old family cemeteries where generations of ancestors remained behind.
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But Lakeview Drive fell victim to an environmental issue and construction was stopped, with the road ending at a tunnel, about six miles into the park. The environmental issue was eventually resolved, but the roadwork was never resumed. And Swain County's citizens gave the unfinished Lakeview Drive its popular, albeit unofficial name "The Road To Nowhere."
On weekends throughout the summer, the Park Service still ferries groups of Swain County residents across Fontana Lake to visit their old family cemetaries for Decoration Days and family reunions.
The legal issue of whether to build the road was finally reolved in February, 2010 when the US Department of Interior signed a settlement agreement paying Swain County $52 million in lieu of building the road. Congressman Heath Shuler, a Bryson City naitve, was the driving force in bringing the settlement to fruition.
Download pdf brochure with directions to the Road To Nowhere, hiking trails, Decoration Days and even more information.
If you've reached this page via a search engine,
you're on the Bryson City, Swain County, North Carolina
Chamber of Commerce web site.
For more information about Bryson City and
The Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina
The Federal government promised to replace Highway 288 with a new road. Lakeview Drive was to have stretched along the north shore of Fontana Lake, from Bryson City to Fontana, 30 miles to the west. And, of special importance to those displaced residents, it was to have provided access to the old family cemeteries where generations of ancestors remained behind.
On weekends throughout the summer, the Park Service still ferries groups of Swain County residents across Fontana Lake to visit their old family cemetaries for Decoration Days and family reunions.
The legal issue of whether to build the road was finally reolved in February, 2010 when the US Department of Interior signed a settlement agreement paying Swain County $52 million in lieu of building the road. Congressman Heath Shuler, a Bryson City naitve, was the driving force in bringing the settlement to fruition.
Download pdf brochure with directions to the Road To Nowhere, hiking trails, Decoration Days and even more information.
If you've reached this page via a search engine,
you're on the Bryson City, Swain County, North Carolina
Chamber of Commerce web site.
For more information about Bryson City and
The Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina
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Having ridden in that area many times and recognize many of the road and town names it's kind of cool to hear the story. Hopefully the 52 million dollar settlement is being used for the benefit of the local people it impacted. Might have to move this thread to the political section to track down what those politicians are doing with that money. lol
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good story about the history of the tunnel been there a few times, good little ride from Bryson city up there. last time we were there you could walk all the way through the tunnel was strange to me why somebody would go to all that much work and then not complete the job. the whole area around fontana damn is a great motorcycle ride. thanks for the info
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He started it!
Psych just kidding HC, by all accounts, he was at the minimum a true leader,, and a Spiritual giant with many improvements on Juddaism to his credit. And to many waaay more than that.
I like to think of the New Testament as, "Of course there is a God, and he is nicer than you thought."
OP, sorry to hear about about the Eminent Domain crap from Uncle. Well used, it serves our country. Abused, you get broken promises and ripped off by the people who should serve you.
Hopefully, your elected officials will do more with the settlement than line the pockets of their cronies.
Nice photo. Why did they put a celing fan in a tunnel?
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