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Unused Bay Area Land Eyed for National Park

SAN FRANCISCO-Vacant buildings, weedy patches of pavement and even rickety bridges in the Bay Area may soon form a large part of the newest, and strangest, national park.

By Michelle Savage | Updated on February 05, 2003

SAN FRANCISCO-At the behest of the U.S. Congress, the National Park Service is considering an idea to transform the nation’s first highway–which stretched from New York City to San Francisco–into a national park.

The Lincoln Highway was launched in 1913 by a group of automobile executives who, much like railroad executives before them, wanted to connect the two coasts, according to National Park Service spokeswoman Kathleen Fitzgerald.

The result, which was finally concreted in the 1930s, was a patchwork of highways and local roads that prompted the construction of at least 1,400 garages, coffee shops, carport motels and deluxe hotels along the route.

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