Quick question:
Was Old Fall River Rd. ever part of US 34? From the brief research that I've done US 34 was commissioned in 1926, but Trail Ridge Rd. wasn't built until 1932. Old Fall River Rd. was opened in 1920, but I'm not so sure it used to be US 34 because its an unpaved one-lane road. Maybe there wasn't a requirement that US highways be paved? Or maybe it used to be paved? :confused:
Quote from: billtm on July 15, 2015, 02:55:57 PM
Quick question:
Was Old Fall River Rd. ever part of US 34? From the brief research that I've done US 34 was commissioned in 1926, but Trail Ridge Rd. wasn't built until 1932. Old Fall River Rd. was opened in 1920, but I'm not so sure it used to be US 34 because its an unpaved one-lane road. Maybe there wasn't a requirement that US highways be paved? Or maybe it used to be paved? :confused:
I don't think US highways needed to be paved back then.
No, it wasn't quite required for US highways to be paved. A section of C-40 east of Denver, was not paved in 1987 as far as I know, and that was old US 40 before I-70 was built. A Michael Summa photo shows this; between 1987 (where Michael took a photo of a dirt trail of old US 40) and the 1960s, where I-70 was under construction but not yet completed east of Denver (I may be wrong), US 40 was not paved.
US 183 north of Taylor, NE was the last unpaved US Route, and wasn't paved until 1967.
US 34 ended in Nebraska until 1939: http://usends.com/30-39/034/034.html
I did some more research today and according to this old map I found, it seems like Old Fall River Rd. used to be SR 16:
http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~33765~1171481?qvq=w4s:/when/1927;q:State=colorado+;sort:Pub_List_No_InitialSort,Pub_Date,Pub_List_No,Series_No;lc:RUMSEY~8~1&mi=1&trs=3 (http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~33765~1171481?qvq=w4s:/when/1927;q:State=colorado+;sort:Pub_List_No_InitialSort,Pub_Date,Pub_List_No,Series_No;lc:RUMSEY~8~1&mi=1&trs=3)