Nez Perce National Forest, Elk City, Idaho. County/parish: Idaho.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places May 21, 2001. NRIS 01000536.
Part of Elk City Wagon Road MPS (NRIS 64500191).
1 contributing site.Also known as:
The Elk City Wagon Road-Vicory Gulch-Smith Grade Segment in the Nez Perce National Forest in Idaho County, Idaho, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. It is located in the vicinity of Elk City.
The Elk City Wagon Road was a 53-mile-long (85 km) road built during 1894 to 1895 from Harpster southeast to the mining town of Elk City. It was built mainly along the route of a pack trail, the Southern Nez Perce Trail, which had been established by 1861, but the wagon trail differed in that it included switchbacks up steep sections and included corduroy road through swamps.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/84248334