East Longs Peak Trail-Longs Peak Trail-Keyhole Route-Shelf Trail

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

“The East Longs Peak Trail, Longs Peak Trail, Keyhole Route or Shelf Trail in Rocky Mountain National Park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places for its significance in the early recreational development of the park. The trail was laid out in 1878 by Reverend Elkanah Lamb, long before the designation of the region as parkland.”
Wikipedia article East Longs Peak Trail, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 110 National Register listings published here for Larimer County · listed in 2007 · category: Structure.

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

The listing

Listed as. East Longs Peak Trail--Longs Peak Trail--Keyhole Route--Shelf Trail - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. W of CO 7, Allenspark, 80517
When was it listed? July 2007
Category. structure
Also known as. Rocky Mountain National Park MPS
Census division. Estes Park
National Register reference number. 07000740 - 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

120 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 120 fires within 5 miles of East Longs Peak Trail-Longs Peak Trail-Keyhole Route-Shelf Trail between 1992 and 2020, burning about 15 acres in total. 19 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	66
Recreation and ceremony	25
Natural	19
Equipment and vehicle use	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	3
Debris and open burning	2

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
6 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named
26 September 1992	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	not named
24 September 2002	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Rocky Mountain National Park	LONE PEAK
20 September 1994	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	ALLENSPARK #1
2 September 1993	Natural	under an acre	Rocky Mountain National Park	CHICKADEE
19 September 2015	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Allenspark Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
14 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Allenspark Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
14 September 2017	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	TWIN TRAIL

Every fire recorded in Larimer County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of East Longs Peak Trail-Longs Peak Trail-Keyhole Route-Shelf Trail: 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Beryllium. 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
	Twin Sister	Beryllium	Past Producer
	Unknown	Gold	Occurrence	Gold

Every working recorded in Larimer 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
Agnes Vaille Shelter	1.7 miles	1992
Hewes-Kirkwood Inn	1.9 miles	1994
Leiffer House	2.4 miles	1978
Enos Mills Homestead Cabin	2.8 miles	1973
Twin Sisters Lookout	4.1 miles	1992
Baldpate Inn	4.1 miles	1996

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 07000740 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Larimer County	All 110 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.