The 1995 Class Iii Cultural Resource Inventory Of The Tanker Curve Reroute And Block Survey Yellowstone National Park Project 254e

A Class III cultural resource inventory of the 240 acre Tanker Curve block survey area located in Gibbon Canyon, Yellowstone National Park was conducted by the Office of the Wyoming State Archaeologist in 1995. The inventory recorded one prehistoric isolated find site (WY-3295-156IF) during the Tanker Curve block survey. Abandoned road scars related to various construction episodes of the Grand Loop Road (48YR520) were also noted. Neither prehistoric isolated find nor the abandoned road scars are considered not eligible for nomination to the National Register of Historic Places. The lack of sites in the uplands may be due to the thick forests and steepness of the canyon in many places which may have made access to water difficult. These attributes may have made much of the project area unattractive for occupation.