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Rim Drive Cultural Landscape Report Crater Lake National Park, Oregon
Road transportation in America's national parks is more than just moving people between destinations. As a key to managing human use, roads provide visitors the opportunity to sightsee and explore the park's natural ecosystems. To enable more Americans to experience national parks, the NPS began to encourage 'motor tourism' in the early part of the twentieth century. This created a demand for modern highways that would allow Americans to view the scenic splendor of protected landscapes like Crater Lake National Park. Rim Drive, the focus of this study, has thus symbolized the connection many Americans have with nature, as ones who see a composition of unspoiled wilderness from a road. This is a cultural landscape, one encompassing and embodying a built environment, but also human attempts to create meaning from nature. Assimilation of this landscape in the visitor's imagination has played an integral part of developing a sense of place, so that Crater Lake and its setting can also manifest part of American national identity.
Rim Drive Cultural Landscape Report Crater Lake National Park, Oregon
Road transportation in America's national parks is more than just moving people between destinations. As a key to managing human use, roads provide visitors the opportunity to sightsee and explore the park's natural ecosystems. To enable more Americans to experience national parks, the NPS began to encourage 'motor tourism' in the early part of the twentieth century. This created a demand for modern highways that would allow Americans to view the scenic splendor of protected landscapes like Crater Lake National Park. Rim Drive, the focus of this study, has thus symbolized the connection many Americans have with nature, as ones who see a composition of unspoiled wilderness from a road. This is a cultural landscape, one encompassing and embodying a built environment, but also human attempts to create meaning from nature. Assimilation of this landscape in the visitor's imagination has played an integral part of developing a sense of place, so that Crater Lake and its setting can also manifest part of American national identity.
Rim Drive Cultural Landscape Report Crater Lake National Park, Oregon
S. R. Mark (author) / J. Waston (author)
2009
296 pages
Report
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English