Developed in 1938, the road has a separate commission in each state and province. These in turn cooperate through the Mississippi River Parkway Commission (MRPC). The 2,340 miles are designated with a green and white sign showing a river steamboat inside a spoked wheel with the name of the state or province. The over-all logo reads "Canada to Gulf" where the local name would be.
Bibliography
"Discover America's Great River Road" by Pat Middleton, ISBN 0962082384, Great River Publishing 1996
"Life on the Mississippi: For the ultimate cross-country driving trip, travel down the Great River Road" by Paul Lukas, Money Magazine June 1, 2002
"The Great River Road runs through 10 states -- and countless tales" by Zeke Wigglesworth, Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service July 10, 1995
External links
Mississippi River Parkway Commission (http://www.mississippiriverinfo.com/)
River Roads (http://www.riverroads.com/)
Entry for the parts of the road (http://www.byways.org/browse/byways/2279/) in the National Scenic Byway system
The GreatRiverRoad was developed by the Mississippi River Parkway Commission (MRPC) and is maintained today in Wisconsin by the Department of Transportation and county and local road agencies.
One of the nation's oldest and longest national scenic by-ways, the GreatRiverRoad is a 3,000 mile network of roads extending from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.
WisconsinGreatRiverRoad - concentrating on Wisconsin's portion of the GreatRiverRoad.
Designed to show off the 10 states bordering the Mississippi from its headwaters to its mouth, the GRR is nothing if not scenic, and anyone who equates the Midwest with the flat Kansas prairie will be pleasantly surprised.
There’s enough industry along the Mississippi for you to navigate the river by the flashing marker lights on smokestacks, and a half-dozen major cities compete with their bigger cousins on the coasts for widest suburban sprawl and ugliest roadside clutter.
For those who do travel it, the GRR spares you the fleets of hurtling 40-ton trucks and that Interstate parade of franchised familiarity, and rewards you with twice the local color, flavor, and wildlife (two- and four-legged) found along any alternate route.
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