Upper Lake McDonald Ranger Station Historic District

Ranger station in Glacier National Park

United States historic place
Upper Lake McDonald Ranger Station Historic District
48°38′23″N 113°52′21″W / 48.63972°N 113.87250°W / 48.63972; -113.87250
Built1924
ArchitectAustin Weikert, Asa Powell
MPSGlacier National Park MRA
NRHP reference No.86003699
Added to NRHPDecember 16, 1986[1]

The Upper Lake McDonald Ranger Station in Glacier National Park was a formerly isolated site that became an administrative center with the opening of the Going-to-the-Sun Road. The National Park Service Rustic cabin was typical of the preferred style for western park structures of the period.[2] The ranger station is similar to its counterparts at Belly River and Sherburne, as well as the Polebridge Ranger Station residence.[3]

The district includes the ranger station, a woodshed, boathouse, garage, cabin, fire cache and a pumphouse.[3]

The boathouse burned in the Howe Ridge Fire of 2018 and only the foundation remains. The ranger station itself and other buildings were saved.

References

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. ^ "Upper Lake McDonald Ranger Station". List of Classified Structures. National Park Service. November 9, 2008.
  3. ^ a b Historical Research Associates (June 1984). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Upper Lake McDonald Ranger Station Historic District" (pdf). National Park Service. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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