Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 10, 1923, Page 13

3 2, oe e ne ree RZ ‘ o*, x “ Caz Editorial INQUIRIES INDICATE INTEREST IN PARK-T0-PA Stephen T. Mather, Director of National Parks, Once Hoped Men of Moderate Means Could Visit Parks—They Do Today. Inquiries asking for information on the National P; i ark-to- tahway are reaching the general office in Denver in| greater numbers this spring than any year heretofore and Park most of them are planning for cars. recreative places and places of his- torical interest between the parks. } Mr. Stephen T. Mather, director of {National parks, once sald: “I hope sthe time will come when a man, with jsmall means and a number of chil- dren, can equip his family car with camp outfit and” visit all of the | National parks and scenic attractions on the way.” ‘That time has come, and the National parks service is pre- pared for a greater number of visitors jexpected in the parks during the sea- ‘son of 1923, While Congress has not provided for a speedy completion of water sup- rly in all National parks, auto camps the service has made safe the public health within the parks, by provid- ing ample pure water snd sanitary 4. Usposition_of waste, so that visitors, ‘ per Sunday SECOND NEWS SECTION And O20: Automobiles Muorni WYOMING WEEKLY REVIEW CASPER, WYO., SUNDAY, JUNE 10, 1923. ng Crifime | SECOND NEWS SECTION {no more fitting finish to a high school| America will be obliged to ship trom! or college education than a trip over) Glacier on the east side to Belton on | the Master Scenic Highway of Amer-|the West, which undertaking is not ica, which may now be done in a/a problem, as special arrangements | very reasonable time. |have been made with the Great} The National Park-to-Park High-| Northern railroad to ship any make| | way association has just completed| °F ize of car for $14.07 each. This | | a survey of conditions on the Master|!® done in the night, if so desired, | Scenic Highway of America which) °USing no loss of time. | connects all of the National parks of} Wyoming besides improving the the West and travels through or into] most scenic 70 miles of highway in j eleven western states. The map! the world at the eastern entrance of. |made by the association from the|the Yellowstone Park is making a notes and observation of the field) new scenic water grade road through representatives, covers the entire;the Wind River Canyon between 6,000 miles of highway and shows) Thermopolis and Shoshoni. plainly and conclusively that the| Colorado has improved the road state highway departments have rec-| over the Poncho Pass, near Salida ognized the routing of the master/and the wonderful Wolf Creek Pass circle as avery important road in| nearly 11,000 feet high so that it is each state, because, while it may be| negotiated with safety and a most larger parties of two or more| are as safe as in any smail town or public camps. National park camp- ers may be assured that ‘heir health} is as zealously guarded in the Na- tional parks as in the town or city from whence they came. This not only applies to the free auto camps, but to all permanent camps and hotels that come under the superin- tendent’s supervision. Under the present efficient management of the parks, all classes of travel are pro- tected and nothing pleases Mr. Mather more than to see a car full of children with their parents visit ing the National parks. This may be said also of the Na- tional Park-to-Park Highway associa- tion since one of the purposes of the association is to make way for the growing population, ‘There can be Not only do they ask for information on the National baeeent parks, but of the National monuments, scenic attractions, used by tourists desiring to visit the National parks, it is not entirely a but in every section a commercial highway of greatest value | to each local community. | As the map indicates each section of the highway has its unfinished parts, even California with its miles| of hard surfacing has yet some work| to complete the entrances to its parks. | Oregon @nd Washington have some work to do and Montana has some| sections, mostly west of Kalispell and/| east of Glaciey Park through the| Blackfeet Indian reservation, which is receiving the attention of Honor- able Scott Leavitt, M. C., president of the association, now at Washing- ton, D. C., and in a recent bulletin | from the National Parks Service we note the progress being made in the road over Logan Pass in Glacier Park. Until this road or the one be- ing built by the state south of the park is finished the travel over this part of the Master Scenic Highway of It is a revelation to hear what Peer- less owners say about the car. Their opinions might be summed up in the statement that it excels in every ma- jor feature of fine car performance. e Open Sunday Evening 146 South Kimball St. Phone 1818 7-Passenger Touring Phaeton wonderful scenic drive. The proach to Mesa Verde National Park is being shortened and grades re duced. New Mexico has accepted the road across the Navajo reservation as a state road. This is, now the poorest section of the National Park-to-Park Highway, however, it is safe though slow and about 100 miles closer than the nearest route that may be taken to get around this poor stretch. Be- sides, this, there is a new attraction that has been added to the many reasons for the Master Scenic High way of America which is the newly created National Monument known as the Aztec Ruins, worthy of any: one's time as it is the most striking and one of the best preserved of the many lost cities of an unknown peo- ple. Arizona has through the good people of Flagstaff and Williams con cluded that it is easier to build and maintain one road rather than two leading to the Grand Canyon. PEERLESS T NASH-CASPER MOTOR COMPANY ap-| | stops, NATIONAL PARKS THE NATIONAL PARK-TO-PARK OTHER NATIONAL HIGHWAYS Oe Road very Popwar. In the 1922 report of the National Park Service the management de- votes nearly a page, crediting the National Patk-to-Park Highway with increasing travel to the National parks and Mr, Allbright; superin- tendent of the Yellowstone National | Park, on October 4, after the close of the 1922 season, wrote in part as follows: “My observations this summer con: vinces me that the National Park-to- Park Highway 1s. gaining in favor fast and that it is only a question of a short time until it is only most popular vacation touring route in the country | The popularity of the Master Scenic | Highway of America and the National | parks, is evident by the number of tourists that made the entire trip dur ing the season of 1922. In the parks and towns on’ the highway during the latter part of the season was noted any number of cars displaying the National park stickers on the windshield. Some returned home with as many stickers as their wind- shield would hold. Many letters have been received in the office of this association recommending the tour tof others which in reality is the grand- est motor trip that can be selected [on this continent and in the world | for that matter, because the highway offers not only a possible but prac- tical routing sending the motorist over not only the best road between each of the parks, but through many scenic and recreative places and in four entirely different climatic coun- tries, the semi-arid regions east of the Rocky Mountain range, the moist timbered country of the northwest, the salt blended atmosphere of the Pacific coast and the dry interesting country of the southwest. With the novelty of climbing to the higher elevations of eleven or more moun: tain passes encountered on the high way all of which are negotiated with ease, comfort and safety by any car in good condition. With an occa- sional thrill, and the new experience of finding it easier to go up than down which {s not a problem if the driver will adopt the customs of mountain driving by descending the longer grades with engine in gear and spark switched off. There are very few accidents in mountain driv- ing even though the roads are somo- what narrow in places and while it looks as if there were no turn outs nevertheless they are there, and a little care in driving {s all that is needed. The writer has driven the mountain highways for years and would rather drive the average moun tain roads than the graded country roads. There is less danger. Time Required. The Master Scenic Highway of America may be taken in 60 to 70 days, visiting most or all of the parks and many of the larger cities in the west, but it is more advisable to plan for longer time. Drives during the day should not be long and hard be- sides there are so many reasons for some which are the Amboy in the Mohave Desert; the Crater Mystic Maze near Needles; the Meteor Crater, a mountain made by the fall The Zunt In- of the in ing of a large meteor, dian Pueblo with Hawikuh one the seven last cities of Cibola, interesting Indian trading posts the Nawojoh; the petrified for: Aztec Ruins which is a monument; the Hells Half A | Creek Pass nearly 11,000 fe ¢ Wind River Ca tthe mil € highwa in with its unexcelled NIGHIVAY iy, PARK -TO-PARE MOstMAY ASSOCIATION” Shoshone Gorge; the Kootenal River Drive; El Morro National Monument, | 10,000 to 20,000 without removing this yon; the Grand Coulie; Mount] to say nothing of the fascinating Pa-| Wonderful tube from the wheel and Shasta; Camp Cajon; the valley of | cific coast, with the beautiful Colum-|the beauty of it all is that this new fire and many others as attractive and interesting places directly on the highway. such attractions as the Royal Gorge;|way association with its general of-|K. K. Milburn at 350 West 47th St Pikes Peake Drive; Lookout Moun-] fices at 1528 Lincoln street, Denver, | Chicago, as he wants them introduced tain where Buffalo Bill is buried and] Colo., distributes literature of inter-|everywhere. Wonderful opportunity where is the museum of his rel est to the motorist contemplating a|for agents. 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