Scarce circa-1960 promotional pictorial map:
Canada to Mexico — International Parks Highway — Now U.S. 85-385
Published by the International Parks Highway Association, with Ray David of KEYZ Radio, Williston, North Dakota, identified as association president. This example carries a local sponsor imprint for Field\'s Jewelry, Hot Springs, South Dakota.
Opens to a striking red-and-blue pictorial route map tracing U.S. 85/385 from Saskatchewan, Canada, through the Great Plains and American West to the Mexican border.
The map is filled with illustrated vignettes depicting parks, cities and roadside attractions, including Prince Albert National Park, Glacier, Yellowstone, Theodore Roosevelt Memorial National Park, Mount Rushmore, Badlands, Wind Cave, Fort Robinson, Denver, Pikes Peak, Santa Fe, Carlsbad Caverns, Big Bend National Park and many others.
Text promotes the route as “The Only National Highway With So Many National Parks” and “The Road to Everywhere.”
Especially interesting as a piece of transitional American highway history: U.S. 385 received its modern designation in 1959, and the cover explicitly promotes the newly designated “U.S. 85-385.” Geographicus Rare Antique Maps
The International Parks Highway Association originated as a road-booster organization seeking a north-south tourism route connecting Big Bend with Canadian national parks. Geographicus Rare Antique Maps
Artwork signed Anthony.
Date: c.1960
Publisher: International Parks Highway Association
Artist: Anthony
Route: U.S. Highways 85 and 385
Region: Canada–United States–Mexico
Approx. opened size: 17.25 × 8 inches
OCLC: 953621739 Geographicus Rare Antique Maps
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