BOARD01055

• Board Meeting Date: 6/29/1960
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

a mile and a half above the present Lake Fork
bridge, After that, staying high, about a
mile to the south of the existing highway,
and picking up the present highway then again
at Pine Creek. This will be of considerable
improvement over the existing highway, which,
as you all know, runs in a very winding
fashion from the Lake Fork bridge to this
point.

The long range plan calls for the con-
struction of a new highway from. Pine Creek
on over to where it would come into the
Little Blue just north of the present High-
way Camp on the Little Blue. Those .are long
range plans by our State Highway Department
and have nothing to do with the project as
such. EventuallY they intend to make almost
a straight cut from Pine Creek on over to the
Little Blue.

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At this point, about where Pine Creek
comes in, the existing highway will be util-
ized to cross the Blue r1esa Dam, to pick up
the Black Mesa road on the other side, That
will be the means of access to the present
Black }~sa road, Highway 92, crossing at the
dam site itself and picking up the road on
the other side.

Then the existing road, that swings
around the edge of the canyon there, will
also be used as access to this major recrea-
tion area which will be constructed just west
of the Lake Fork, between the Lake Fork and
Pine Creek. This major recreation area will
border the reservoir at that point so that we
have complete access to that area from the
existing highway, The existing highway will,
in effect, become a secondary road to this
major recreation area, which you can see we
have shaded in here in purple. This recrea-
tion area will be part of a three million
dollar plus expenditure to develop several
major recreation areas; one of them will be
in this area between the Lake Fork and Pine
Creek upon the high ground. This area will
have permanent type housing and permanent in-
stallations."

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