D & RG Narrow Gauge Trestle

Built in 1895. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.

From the record

“The D&RG Narrow Gauge Trestle, also known as the Cimarron Canyon trestle, is a narrow-gauge railroad deck truss bridge crossing the Cimarron River near Cimarron, Colorado. Located within the Curecanti National Recreation Area, the trestle is the last remaining railroad bridge along the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad's Black Canyon route, a narrow-gauge passenger and freight line that traversed the famous Black Canyon of the Gunnison between 1882 and the 1940s.”
Wikipedia article D & RG Narrow Gauge Trestle, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 28 National Register listings published here for Montrose County · listed in 1976 · category: Structure · built in 1895.

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

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 objectss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Address. NE of Cimarron, Cimarron, 81401
When was it listed? June 1976
Category. structure
Census division. Montrose
When was it built? 1895
National Register reference number. 76000172 - 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

13 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of D & RG Narrow Gauge Trestle between 1993 and 2018, burning about 508 acres in total. 6 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
Natural	6
Debris and open burning	4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3

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
15 August 2008	Natural	under an acre	Southwest District, Montrose	HIGHWAY 50
8 July 1993	Natural	under an acre	Southwest District, Montrose	RAW HIDE
3 July 2002	Natural	under an acre	Curecanti National Recreation Area	2O27
29 July 1995	Natural	under an acre	Southwest District, Montrose	SHIRLEY
14 July 2000	Natural	1.5 acres	Southwest District, Montrose	SQUAW
13 July 1995	Natural	under an acre	Southwest District, Montrose	CEDAR
17 June 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named
21 April 2008	Debris and open burning	1.0 acres	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named

Every fire recorded in Montrose County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of D & RG Narrow Gauge Trestle: 4 occurrences. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Mica, Feldspar. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status
Goat Hill Mine	Feldspar, Mica	Occurrence
Goat Hill #1	Mica	Occurrence
Mica Property	Mica	Occurrence
Muscovite #1	Mica	Occurrence

Every working recorded in Montrose 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Box Outfit Car No. 04414	2.6 miles	2009
Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad Stock Car No. 5620	2.6 miles	2010
Rio Grande Southern Railroad Derrick Car	2.6 miles	2010
Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad Stock Car No. 5679D	2.6 miles	2010
Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad Caboose No. 0577	2.9 miles	2009
Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad Boxcar No. 3132	2.9 miles	2009

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 76000172 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Montrose County	All 28 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.