Hooker Cut

Shutterbug - Beautiful Pulaski County USA

Hooker Cut

Newburg, Missouri 65550, United States

Created By: Pulaski County Tourism Bureau & Visitors Center

Information

The new Route 66 alignment built between 1941 and 1943 to improve the safety and eliminate the congestion along the "old" alignment through Hooker and Devil's Elbow had a straight alignment instead of winding around the hills, it went through them. This required a great cut through a high ridge east of the Big Piney River: Hooker Cut.

The engineers at the Fred Weber Construction Co. of St. Louis developed a new technique that is still in use today: they terraced the rock walls to keep falling rocks from hitting the highway or the vehicles on it.

The 90 foot-deep cut was the deepest road cut in America for many years.

This point of interest is part of the tour: Shutterbug - Beautiful Pulaski County USA


 

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