Snow Creek Ski Hut

Built in 1929 (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 1929, National Park Service rustic.

Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Off Tanaya Lake Trail, westerly shoulder of Mt. Watkins, Yosemite
When was it listed? July 2014
Category. building
Also known as. Yosemite National Park MPS
Census division. Yosemite Valley
When was it built? 1929
Architectural style. National Park Service rustic
National Register reference number. 14000410 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

291 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 291 fires within 5 miles of Snow Creek Ski Hut between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,646 acres in total. 86 started naturally. 5 were 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
Recreation and ceremony	116
Natural	86
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	46
Smoking	29
Arson/incendiarism	5
Debris and open burning	4
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Other causes	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
9 September 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Yosemite National Park	STOCK TRAIL
9 September 1995	Smoking	under an acre	Yosemite National Park	MALL
9 September 1992	Natural	under an acre	Yosemite National Park	INDIAN
8 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Yosemite National Park	PINNACLES
8 September 1995	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Yosemite National Park	SUNRISE
7 September 2015	Natural	415 acres	Yosemite National Park	TENAYA
7 September 2012	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Yosemite National Park	FALLS
7 September 1992	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Yosemite National Park	MAYLAKE

Every fire 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 Hetch Hetchy Reservoir 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 Yosemite Falls quadrangle1:24000
1992 USGS Yosemite Falls quadrangle1:24000
1997 USGS Yosemite Falls quadrangle1:24000

Listed places nearby

6 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
Half Dome Cables and Trail	2.6 miles	2012
Half Dome Cables and Trail	2.8 miles	2012
Snow Flat Snow Survey Shelter	3.1 miles	2014
Ahwahnee Hotel	4.0 miles	1977
Camp Curry Historic District	4.0 miles	1979
Degnan's Restaurant	4.3 miles	2017

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 14000410 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.