BlockFrom the record
One of 92 National Register listings published here for Boulder County · listed in 2008 · category: Structure.
Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service
Sandbeach Lake Trail
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.
The listing
- Address. S. of Lookout Mt., Meeker Park, 80510
- When was it listed? January 2008
- Category. structure
- Also known as. Rocky Mountain National Park MPS
- Census division. Upper St. Vrain
- Architect. National Park Service
- National Register reference number. 07001471 - 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
128 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 128 fires within 5 miles of Sandbeach Lake Trail between 1992 and 2020, burning about 21 acres in total. 15 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 | 82 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 22 |
| Natural | 15 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Debris and open burning | 2 |
| Smoking | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 September 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland | TAYLOR MOUNTAIN |
| 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 2019 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland | ST. VRAIN |
| 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 |
Mines and quarries near this property
4 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Sandbeach Lake Trail: 2 occurrences, 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Beryllium, Zinc, Silver. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Old Town | Gold, Zinc, Silver | Past Producer | ||
| Twin Sister | Beryllium | Past Producer | ||
| Unknown | Gold | Occurrence | Gold | |
| Unknown | Gold | Occurrence | Gold |
Storms near this property
4 since 2010Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Meeker Park, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 2010 and 2015: 2 hail, 1 lightning, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2010 | Lightning | Meeker Park | 1 hurt | A hiker was struck while traversing The Narrows portion of Longs Peak in Rocky Mountain National Park. The 31-year-old man was struck late in the afternoon at an elevation of 13,800 ft. after taking shelter under a rock ledge when a storm approached. The lightning apparently struck a rock then hit the man in the head. He was knocked out for approximately 14 hours and was not found until the next morning. The man suffered from numerous burn injuries. He was concious and able to walk slowly. He recalled his hair standing on end but was unable to remember being hit by the lightning. |
| September 2013 | Flash Flood | Meeker Park | - | Flash flooding continued with several collapsed homes reported near Jamestown. Major flooding continued on the South St. Vrain River in northern Boulder County. Moderate to major flooding was reported in the Fourmile burn area west of Boulder. Moderate flooding was reported along Boulder Creek through the city of Boulder and in Lefthand Canyon. |
| August 2015 | Hail | Meeker Park | - | no account filed |
| August 2015 | Hail | Meeker Park | - | no account filed |
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 milesOther 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.
| Photograph | Property | Distance | Listed |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Wild Basin Ranger Station and House | 0.7 miles | 1988 |
 | Wild Basin House | 0.8 miles | 1988 |
| Thunder Lake Trail-Bluebird Lake Trail | 2.3 miles | 2008 | |
| Longhurst Lodge | 2.6 miles | 2017 | |
 | Thunder Lake Patrol Cabin | 4.1 miles | 1988 |
 | Bunce School | 6.1 miles | 1986 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 07001471 in Record Group 79. |
| Boulder County | All 92 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.
- Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.