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One of 8 National Register listings published here for Summit County · listed in 2025 · category: Building.
Sources: the National Register database, National Park Service
The Bunk House Lodge
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2025.
The listing
- What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
- Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
- Address. 13203 CO-9, Breckenridge, 80424
- When was it listed? June 2025
- Category. building
- Census division. Breckenridge
- National Register reference number. 100011589 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.
Fires near this property
221 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 221 fires within 5 miles of The Bunk House Lodge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 126 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 7 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 |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 147 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 31 |
| Natural | 16 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 7 |
| Fireworks | 6 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 5 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 3 |
| Smoking | 2 |
| Debris and open burning | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | White River National Forest | LOWRY |
| 8 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Lake Dillon Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 8 September 1998 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | White River National Forest | PROSPECTOR |
| 8 September 1997 | Recreation and ceremony | under an acre | White River National Forest | MT ROYAL |
| 7 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 1.0 acres | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | not named |
| 5 September 2011 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters | BRECKENRIDGE |
| 4 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Lake Dillon Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
| 3 September 2018 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Red White & Blue Fire Protection District | UNKNOWN |
Mines and quarries near this property
10 of 97 shownRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 97 workings within 5 miles of The Bunk House Lodge: 39 past producers, 37 occurrences, 13 producers, 8 unknowns. 13 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Copper, Lead, Silver, Zinc, Lead, Silver, Zinc, Copper, Lead, Silver, Gold. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brooks - Snider | Gold, Silver | Producer | ||
| Bullion King | Lead, Silver, Zinc | Producer | ||
| Cally Mine | Gold, Copper, Silver, Lead, Zinc | Past Producer | ||
| Commodore Placer | Gold, Silver, Zinc, Copper, Lead | Past Producer | ||
| Como Claims | Uranium | Unknown | ||
| Dunkin | Gold, Lead, Silver, Zinc | Past Producer | 1895 | |
| Fox Lake Mine | Lead, Silver, Zinc, Gold | Producer | ||
| Frisco | Gold, Copper, Silver, Zinc, Lead | Past Producer | ||
| Hamilton | Silver, Gold, Lead | Producer | Pyrite, Sphalerite, Galena | |
| Harrison Tunnel | Gold, Silver, Zinc, Lead, Copper | Past Producer |
Storms near this property
4 since 1997Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Breckenridge, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1997 and 2011: 3 lightning, 1 flash flood. The reports record 1 death and 6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 2004 | Lightning | Breckenridge | 1 killed, 4 hurt | Lightning killed a woman as she was hiking in French Gulch near Breckenridge. Four other people hiking with the woman were knocked down but suffered only minor injuries. |
| June 1997 | Lightning | Breckenridge | 2 hurt | Two search and rescue volunteers were injured while rescuing a skier atop Peak 10 at Breckenridge Ski Area. Lightning struck the first man as he was towing the injured skier by snowmobile and toboggan. The bolt struck the snowmobile, then the rescuer. He received minor burns to his eyes. The other rescuer was injured 1/4 mile away. Apparently the ground current created by the lightning travelled up his ski pole. He suffered temporary dizziness as a result of the strike. |
| July 2011 | Flash Flood | Breckenridge | $200,000 | Severe thunderstorms caused flash flooding in Summit County around Breckenridge. Extensive flooding damaged the Breckenridge Golf Course. In addition, Airport Road was closed. |
| July 2011 | Lightning | Breckenridge | $15,000 | Lightning struck a church. |
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
5 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Masonic Placer Cemetery-Valley Brook Cemetery | 2.0 miles | 2014 | |
 | Breckenridge Historic District | 3.0 miles | 1980 |
| Soda Creek Ranch | 3.7 miles | 2010 | |
 | Wildhack's Grocery Store-Post Office | 4.3 miles | 1985 |
 | Frisco Schoolhouse | 4.5 miles | 1983 |
Sources for this property
| National Archives record | The nomination case file for reference 100011589 in Record Group 79. |
| Summit County | All 8 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.