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Photograph of North Inlet Trail
Photograph by Brian & Jaclyn Drum, CC BY 2.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

North Inlet Trail

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

From the record

“The North Inlet Trail, in Rocky Mountain National Park near Grand Lake, Colorado, was built up from lesser pathways and rebuilt during 1926 to 1931 into its course that mostly continues to today. The trail runs from the North Inlet feeder into Grand Lake, up 11.5 miles to Flattop Mountain.”

Wikipedia article North Inlet Trail, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 110 National Register listings published here for Larimer County · listed in 2008 · category: Structure.

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

The listing

  • Address. Roughly along N. Inlet & Hallett Cr. to Flattop Mt., Grand Lake, 80447
  • When was it listed? March 2008
  • Category. structure
  • Also known as. Rocky Mountain National Park MPS
  • Architect. National Park Service
  • National Register reference number. 08000127 - 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

23 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 23 fires within 5 miles of North Inlet Trail between 1994 and 2020, burning about 748 acres in total. 10 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
Natural10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined7
Recreation and ceremony3
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
6 September 2018Naturalunder an acreGrand Lake Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
9 August 1995Naturalunder an acreRocky Mountain National ParkSUMMERLAND
27 August 1998Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreRocky Mountain National ParkBACKFIRE
2 August 2000Naturalunder an acreRocky Mountain National ParkENENTAH
13 August 2020Smokingunder an acreGrand Lake Fire Protection DistrictN/A
12 August 2014Natural1.6 acresRocky Mountain National ParkTONAHUTU
10 August 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreGrand Lake Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
30 July 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersGRAND LAKE

Every fire recorded in Larimer 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 North Inlet Trail: 1 occurrence, 1 unknown, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Crushed/Broken, 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Grand Lake WolverineLead, Gold, Copper, SilverPast Producer
Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Trail Ridge Road4.8 miles1984
Flattop Mountain Trail5.1 miles2007
Lake Haiyaha Trail5.6 miles2008
Fern Lake Patrol Cabin5.6 miles1988
Bear Lake Comfort Station6.1 miles1988
Fern Lake Trail6.6 miles2005

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 08000127 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Larimer CountyAll 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.