National Park Highway

National Park Highway may refer to the following:

  • National Park-to-Park Highway, an early highway forming a loop through the National Parks of the U.S. West
  • National Parks Highway, an early highway from Chicago to Seattle and Crater Lake, also known as the Northwest Trail
  • National Park Highway (Washington), a state highway in the area around Mount Rainier, later known as Primary State Highway 5
  • A highway in a National Park

Famous quotes containing the words national, park and/or highway:

    As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?
    Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–1859)

    Linnæus, setting out for Lapland, surveys his “comb” and “spare shirt,” “leathern breeches” and “gauze cap to keep off gnats,” with as much complacency as Bonaparte a park of artillery for the Russian campaign. The quiet bravery of the man is admirable.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    The highway presents an interesting study of American roadside advertising. There are signs that turn like windmills; startling signs that resemble crashed airplanes; signs with glass lettering which blaze forth at night when automobile headlight beams strike them; flashing neon signs; signs painted with professional touch; signs crudely lettered and misspelled.... They extol the virtues of ice creams, shoe creams, cold creams;...
    —For the State of Florida, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)