Back in Time The Big Walker and East River Mountain Tunnels
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Back in Time The Big Walker and East River Mountain Tunnels



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  • Alternative Title:
    The Big Walker and East River Mountain Tunnels
  • Creators:
    Longfellow, Rickie
  • Corporate Creators:
    United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
  • Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Series:
    FHWA Highway History Website Articles
  • Resource Type:
    Web Document
  • Right Statement:
    Public Domain
  • Geographical Coverage:
    United States;Virginia;West Virginia
  • Corporate Publisher:
    United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
  • Abstract:
    Motorists on Interstate 77, a major north/south highway, pass easily and quickly through the Big Walker Mountain Tunnel near Wytheville, Virginia, and East River Mountain Tunnel at Bluefield, West Virginia. The twin lane East River Mountain Tunnel is 5,400 feet long and the Big Walker Mountain Tunnel, also twin lanes, is more than 4,200 feet in length. Changing lanes is permitted in both tunnels. Travel, however, was not always so easy between the two states. Travel to the other side of Big Walker meant traveling the twisted, however scenic, Highway 52. On East River Mountain, travelers actually crossed over the mountain on a narrow road. Like many mountain roads, fog and winter snow sometimes contributed to the roads having to be closed. Elevation for both mountains is more than 3,000 feet. The logical solution was a tunnel through both mountains.
  • Content Notes:
    The original format of this document was an active HTML page(s) located under https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/history.cfm. The Federal Highway Administration converted the HTML page(s) into an Adobe® Acrobat® PDF file to preserve and support reuse of the information it contained. The intellectual content of this PDF is an authentic capture of the original HTML file. Hyperlinks and other functions of the HTML webpage may have been lost, and this version of the content may not fully work with screen reading software.
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