Ruth DeArmond

Estelle Collection

1936

This photo features the recently completed Knik River highway bridge southeast of Palmer. It is taken from up on the side of Pioneer Peak on the south side of the river. The lower right foreground portion of the image is very dark, but close examination reveals a strip of loose gravel suggesting the photographer likely climbed up one of the mountain's slide areas. The rest of the dark area represents the heavily forested mountainside, cut by a short section of the Palmer/Anchorage Road barely visible below near the water. The wide Knik River occupies a center third of the image diagonally from upper right to lower left with the multi-span steel bridge crossing the apparently white water. The lowlands on the far side of the river appear as unbroken forest from the river to the base of mountains in the background.

Knik River, Alaska

Digital file

Bridge@2x-Est