Walker Macy’s 40-year legacy project along the Columbia River Gorge restores the experience of America’s first scenic highway for a new generation—and new uses.

ON THE COVER: A section of the Historic Columbia River Highway State Trail by Walker Macy. Photo by Gabe Border.

Featured Story: “Reinventing the Lost Road,” by Katharine Logan. In 1922, the scenic Columbia River Highway astonished motorists with stunning views and curves, but within years it was obsolete, sections cut up and lost. After decades of advocacy and planning by Walker Macy, the old road is reborn as a state trail that hugs the historic route and gives hikers and cyclists new thrills. (Online on September 7 on landscapearchitecturemagazine.org.)

Also in the issue:

• “Back to the Garden,” by Jane Margolies. At the site of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, Heritage Landscapes and a team of archaeologists have pieced together the landscape traces of the legendary 1969 festival. With the Bethel Woods Center for the Arts close by, and tourists flocking, the echoes from Woodstock are only getting louder.
• Now: The Office of Cheryl Barton hands the keys to SCAPE; certification ensures Chesapeake Bay expertise; DIALOG designs a multilevel park for busy Vancouver; a design dedicated to Black trans civil rights evolves, and a new initiative highlights Asian and Pacific Islander leaders in design.
• Habitat: “Sidecar Wetlands,” by Jeff Link. No land is no problem along Chicago’s moribund North Branch Canal, where Omni Ecosystems and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill drop modular wetlands along the Wild Mile.
• Goods: “Finishing Touches,” by Emily Davidson. New looks for public gathering places.
• “The Team on Tops,” by Anne C Godfrey. Behind the scaffolding at San Francisco’s Presidio Tunnel Tops park stand an uncommon number of women construction managers and project leaders. They don’t all think that’s a big deal. (Online on September 1 on landscapearchitecturemagazine.org.)
• Book Review: “Gone Feral,” by Anjulie Rao. A review of Natura Urbana: Ecological Constellations in Urban Space, by Matthew Gandy. (Online on September 21 on landscapearchitecturemagazine.org.)
• Backstory: The expansion of a Dutch war cemetery by Karres en Brands.