Early transportation options included plank road over sand dunes
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This is what visitors to the Imperial Sand Dunes will find today when looking for any remnants of the historic Plank Road: steel straps and spikes protruding from the sand which covers what little timber remains of the wooden roadway.
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Early transportation options included plank road over sand dunes.
Today the Imperial Sand Dunes west of Yuma attract thousands of people set on having “fun in the sand.” Getting there is a breeze, thanks to the four-lane Interstate 8 freeway.But a century ago, traveling across the treacherous “Little Sahara” of shifting, blow. Read Early transportation options included plank road over sand dunes...
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