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Photograph of Interlaken Resort District
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Interlaken Resort District

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.

From the record

“Interlaken Resort District is located near Twin Lakes, Colorado and was one of the most scenic and most popular resort areas in the mountains of Colorado, in the United States. Located across from the town of Twin Lakes, it began operations in 1879 as a small and unpretentious hotel called the Lakeside Resort on the smaller of the two lakes at the foot of Mount Elbert.”

Wikipedia article Interlaken Resort District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Lake County · listed in 1974 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. E of Twin Lakes off CO 82, Twin Lakes, 81251
  • When was it listed? August 1974
  • Category. district
  • Census division. Leadville
  • National Register reference number. 74000587 - 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

65 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 65 fires within 5 miles of Interlaken Resort District between 1992 and 2020, burning about 154 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 1 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
Recreation and ceremony34
Natural10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined10
Equipment and vehicle use4
Smoking3
Debris and open burning2
Arson/incendiarism1
Fireworks1

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
23 September 1993Recreation and ceremony4.0 acresPike and San Isabel National Forestnot named
21 September 2010Smoking1.0 acresPike and San Isabel National ForestSOUTH ELBERT
2 September 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestLILY POND
13 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestFOREBAY
12 September 2019Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestLODGEPOLE 2
11 September 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestLOST CANYON
10 September 2001Naturalunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestSPRING CREEK
9 August 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acrePike and San Isabel National ForestSOUTH ELBERT

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 67 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 67 workings within 5 miles of Interlaken Resort District: 49 past producers, 17 occurrences, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Gold, Manganese, Copper, Lead, Silver, Lead. 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
Bartlett MinesLead, Aluminum, CalciumPast Producer
C H Stenner MillStonePast Producer
Little TroyFluorine-FluoritePast Producer
Smith-Bullard MineLead, Copper, Gold, Silver, ZincPast Producer
Tom ThumbGold, Silver, LeadPast Producer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel
AztecGold, SilverPast Producer
Eleven OclockGold, SilverPast Producer
UnknownLead, Zinc, SilverOccurrence
UnknownLead, Zinc, SilverOccurrence

Every working recorded in Lake County

Storms near this property

1 since 2007

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Twin Lakes, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2007: 1 lightning. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2007LightningTwin Lakes1 hurtno account filed

Every storm recorded in Lake 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

3 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
Twin Lakes District1.9 miles1974
Derry Mining Site Camp3.2 miles2000
Hayden Ranch Headquarters3.9 miles2003

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 74000587 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lake CountyAll 10 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.