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The highway consists of the eastern half of Utah State Route 9. It begins northeast of Springdale and runs east into Zion National Park, where it passes through the 1.1 miles (1.8 km) long Zion-Mount Carmel Tunnel. After exiting the park, the highway continues east to U.S. Route 89 at Mount Carmel Junction.
SR-9 at the east end of the tunnel. Construction began through and east of the national park in 1927, on the portion that had been added to the state highway system in 1923 and to SR-15 in 1927. [6] The Nevada Construction Company completed the Zion-Mt. Carmel Tunnel in 1930, after three years of construction and a cost of $1,896,000. [3]
The Zion-Mount Carmel Highway was built to link Zion with Grand Canyon National Park. Completed in 1930, the road features a 5,613-foot (1,711 m) tunnel in the wall of Pine Creek Canyon. [8] The road enables visitors to do a loop tour of Grand Canyon, Zion, Bryce Canyon National Park and Cedar Breaks National Monument.
Encrinite within the Carmel Formation (Middle Jurassic) exposed at Mt. Carmel Junction, Utah. Another angle of the tunnel entrance. The north–south trending Sevier Fault is 2 miles (3.2 km) east of the main highway through Mount Carmel Junction. Sandstone cliffs lie to the south and the White Cliffs of the Grand Staircase can be seen to the east.
Claypool Tunnel, abandoned highway tunnel next to US 60, ... Zion – Mount Carmel Highway tunnels, 1930, 1.1 miles (1.8 km) and 480 feet (150 m) long; Vermont
The Rethink Coalition and Indy Chamber unveiled ideas for recessed highway between Fountain Square and Bates Hendricks and it's a big undertaking. Move over, Carmel. This proposed sunken highway ...
But the bridges and tunnel cost between $6 million and $11 million, much more than the price of paving a few miles of new trail. ... and tunnels at City Center Drive and West Carmel Drive.
Highway 23, more-commonly known as the "Carmel Tunnels" (Hebrew: מנהרות הכרמל, Minharot HaCarmel), are a set of toll tunnels in Haifa, Israel.The tunnels' purpose is to reduce road congestion in the Haifa area and to provide an alternative route for reaching the eastern and central parts of the city, Haifa Bay and the Krayot area to and from Israel's central coastal plain without ...