Ostrander Lake Ski Hut

Built in 1941 (National Park Service rustic). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. 13 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1897.

From the record

One of 44 National Register listings published here for Mariposa County · listed in 2014 · category: Building · built in 1941, National Park Service rustic.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 objectss, 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Ostrander Lake Tr., Yosemite, 95389
When was it listed? July 2014
Category. building
Also known as. Yosemite National Park MPS
Census division. Yosemite Valley
When was it built? 1941
Architectural style. National Park Service rustic
National Register reference number. 14000409 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

96 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 96 fires within 5 miles of Ostrander Lake Ski Hut between 1992 and 2020, burning about 32,759 acres in total. 72 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Natural	72
Recreation and ceremony	20
Debris and open burning	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
5 September 2009	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Yosemite National Park	OSTRANDER
3 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Yosemite National Park	BRIDALVIEL
29 September 2013	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Yosemite National Park	HORIZON
25 September 2001	Natural	under an acre	Yosemite National Park	HORSE
24 September 2001	Recreation and ceremony	2.0 acres	Yosemite National Park	CHILL
21 September 1994	Natural	1.0 acres	Yosemite National Park	CRESCENT
20 September 2010	Natural	under an acre	Yosemite National Park	OSTRANDER
20 September 1999	Natural	under an acre	Yosemite National Park	HOOVER

Every fire recorded in Mariposa County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Ostrander Lake Ski Hut: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Porphyry Hill	Gold	Producer

Every working recorded in Mariposa County

Maps showing this location

13 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1897 USGS Yosemite quadrangle1:125000
1900 USGS Yosemite quadrangle1:125000
1903 USGS Yosemite quadrangle1:125000 - 2 printings
1909 USGS Yosemite quadrangle1:125000 - 7 printings
1947 USGS Mariposa quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1948 USGS Mariposa quadrangle1:250000
1956 USGS Yosemite quadrangle1:62500 - 4 printings
1957 USGS Mariposa quadrangle1:250000 - 4 printings
1963 USGS Mariposa quadrangle1:250000
1976 USGS Yosemite Valley quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1990 USGS Half Dome quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
1992 USGS Half Dome quadrangle1:24000
1997 USGS Half Dome quadrangle1:24000

Listed places nearby

5 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
McGurk Cabin	5.4 miles	1979
Glacier Point Trailside Museum	7.3 miles	1978
Yosemite Valley	7.8 miles	2006
Yosemite Valley Bridges	7.9 miles	1977
LeConte Memorial Lodge	8.0 miles	1977

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 14000409 in Record Group 79.
Mariposa County	All 44 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.