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One of 110 National Register listings published here for Larimer County · listed in 2021 · category: District.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
Fall River Pass Historic District
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2021.
The listing
- Address. Fall River Pass, Rocky Mountain National Park, Estes Park, 80517
- When was it listed? December 2021
- Category. district
- Also known as. Historic Park Landscapes in National and State Parks MPS; Rocky Mountain National Park MPS; National Park Service Mission 66 Era Resources MPS; National Park Service Mission 66 Era Resources MPS
- Census division. Estes Park
- National Register reference number. 100007216 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
14 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Fall River Pass Historic District between 1994 and 2019, burning about 9 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 2 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 | 5 |
| Natural | 5 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 August 2018 | Natural | 6.0 acres | Rocky Mountain National Park | FOREST CANYON |
| 30 August 2015 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Rocky Mountain National Park | FALL RIVER |
| 9 July 2010 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Rocky Mountain National Park | FOREST CANYON |
| 25 July 2019 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Rocky Mountain National Park | JACKSTRAW |
| 21 July 2005 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | Rocky Mountain National Park | CHASM FALL |
| 21 July 1997 | Natural | under an acre | Rocky Mountain National Park | GDNGHTIREN |
| 21 July 1994 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland | BEAVER'S |
| 21 July 1994 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland | BEAVER II |
Mines and quarries near this property
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Fall River Pass Historic District: 1 occurrence, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Titanium, Metal, Pumice. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Storms near this property
20 since 1996Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Estes Park, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 11 hail, 6 lightning, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. The reports record 2 deaths and 13 injuries. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 1999 | Lightning | Estes Park | 1 killed, 2 hurt | Lightning killed a 35-yr old man and seriously injured his wife and young daughter. The family was hiking near the Gore Range Overlook along Trail Ridge Road when the thunderstorm developed, at an elevation of 11,700 feet. |
| August 1999 | Lightning | Estes Park | 1 killed, 2 hurt | Lightning killed one hiker and injured two others, while they were hiking a remote drainage in Rocky Mountain National Park. |
| August 1998 | Lightning | Estes Park | 6 hurt | Six people received minor injuries when lightning struck a nearby scenic overlook atop Trail Ridge Road. The charge apparently travelled across the ground and shocked the group. |
| October 2000 | Lightning | Estes Park | 2 hurt | Two people were injured when they were struck by lightning at the Forest Canyon Overlook, at nearly 12,000 feet elevation along Trail Ridge Road. The thunderstorm formed rapidly overhead. One of the victims was badly burned, the other had no visible injuries. |
| August 2019 | Lightning | Estes Park | 1 hurt | A hiker was seriously injured by lightning while hiking in Rocky Mountain National Park. |
| July 2011 | Lightning | Estes Park | $5,000 | Lightning sparked three fires. |
| July 2022 | Hail | Estes Park | - | Torrential hail and rain occurred in the town of Estes Park. The hail piled up to a foot deep and snowplows were called in to remove it. |
| June 2021 | Heavy Rain | Estes Park | - | Moderate to heavy rainfall associated with a thunderstorm produced minor flooding along Trail Ridge Road. |
| May 2018 | Tornado (EF0) | Estes Park | - | A weak tornado touched down briefly near Bear Lake with no observable damage. |
| September 2013 | Flash Flood | Estes Park | - | Heavy rain caused five very small dams in the Big Elk Meadows area to fail. As a result, a family became trapped when a county road was washed out and floodwaters damaged their home. Road closures included: U.S. 34 east/west, between Loveland and Estes Park; CO14 east/west, between Walden and Ted's Place. Larimer County Roads 27E, 25E, 52E and 54E were all closed near La Porte due to flash flooding. Several roads were also washed out southwest of Loveland and north of Fort Collins. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Estes Park | - | no account filed |
| June 2016 | Hail | Estes Park | - | no account filed |
| July 2010 | Hail | Estes Park | - | no account filed |
| July 2007 | Hail | Estes Park | - | no account filed |
| June 2006 | Hail | Estes Park | - | no account filed |
| July 2005 | Hail | Estes Park | - | no account filed |
| June 2004 | Hail | Estes Park | - | no account filed |
| June 1999 | Hail | Estes Park | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Estes Park | - | no account filed |
| June 1996 | Hail | Estes 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Fall River Pass Ranger Station | 0.2 miles | 1988 |
 | Fall River Pump House and Catchment Basin | 0.2 miles | 2006 |
 | Willow Park Patrol Cabin | 1.0 miles | 1987 |
 | Willow Park Stable | 1.0 miles | 1987 |
 | Beatrice Willard Alpine Tundra Research Plots | 2.2 miles | 2007 |
 | Fall River Road | 2.6 miles | 2018 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100007216 in Record Group 79. |
| 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.
- 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.