East Inlet Trail

Built in 1934. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

From the record

“The East Inlet Trail in Rocky Mountain National Park is a National Recreation Trail, first built in 1913 to provide access from Grand Lake to a series of lakes 6 miles (9.7 km) to the east of Grand Lake. The trail originates at the east stream inlet to Grand lake: confusingly, it is close to the west portal of the Alva B.”
Wikipedia article East Inlet Trail, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Grand County · listed in 2005 · category: Structure · built in 1934, by National Park Service.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Rocky Mountain National Park, Estes Park, 80447
When was it listed? February 2005
Category. structure
Also known as. Rocky Mountain National Park MPS
Census division. Granby
When was it built? 1934
Architect. National Park Service
National Register reference number. 05000073 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

14 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of East Inlet Trail between 1994 and 2019, burning about 93 acres in total. 3 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	7
Recreation and ceremony	4
Natural	3

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
2 August 2000	Natural	under an acre	Rocky Mountain National Park	ENENTAH
19 August 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	AA BARN
10 August 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Grand Lake Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
8 July 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	ROARING FORK
5 July 2001	Natural	under an acre	Rocky Mountain National Park	POLE CREEK
30 July 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	GRAND LAKE
18 July 2014	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	GRAND BAY
17 July 2006	Natural	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	ROARING FORK

Every fire recorded in Grand County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of East Inlet Trail: 1 occurrence, 1 producer, 1 past producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Copper, Perlite, Lead, Gold, Copper, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Grand Lake Wolverine	Lead, Gold, Copper, Silver	Past Producer
Ruth Claims	Iron, Copper	Occurrence	Chalcopyrite, Hematite
Unknown	Perlite	Producer

Every working recorded in Grand County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

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
Shadow Mountain Lookout	4.3 miles	1978
Shadow Mountain Trail	4.5 miles	2008
Kauffman House	5.5 miles	1974
Smith-Eslick Cottage Court	5.6 miles	2016
Grand Lake Lodge	6.1 miles	1993
Greenwood Lodge	7.4 miles	2010

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 05000073 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Grand County	All 22 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.