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Photograph of Lulu City
Photograph by Dcloydd, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Lulu City Site

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.

From the record

“Lulu City was a transient mining town in eastern Grand County, Colorado, in the Kawuneeche Valley in what is now Rocky Mountain National Park. The town appeared after silver was discovered in the area in 1879 by prospector Joe Shipler, and was built primarily by the Middle Park and Grand River Land Improvement Company in 1880.”

Wikipedia article Lulu City, Colorado, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Grand County · listed in 1977 · category: Site.

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

The listing

  • Address. N of Grand Lake on Trail Ridge Rd., Grand Lake, 80447
  • When was it listed? September 1977
  • Category. site
  • Also known as. Rocky Mountain National Park MRA (AD); Rocky Mountain National Park MRA
  • Census division. Granby
  • National Register reference number. 77001562 - 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

11 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 11 fires within 5 miles of Lulu City Site between 1994 and 2019, burning about 3 acres in total. 4 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
Natural4
Missing data/not specified/undetermined2
Recreation and ceremony2
Arson/incendiarism2
Equipment and vehicle use1

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
14 August 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreRocky Mountain National ParkBEAVER CREEK
9 July 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreRocky Mountain National ParkFOREST CANYON
30 July 1995Naturalunder an acreRocky Mountain National ParkDEVILS PT.
25 July 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreRocky Mountain National ParkJACKSTRAW
21 July 1997Naturalunder an acreRocky Mountain National ParkGDNGHTIREN
21 July 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandBEAVER'S
21 July 1994Arson/incendiarismunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandBEAVER II
20 July 2008Natural1.0 acresRocky Mountain National ParkSHIPLER WFU

Every fire recorded in Grand 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 Lulu City Site: 2 unknowns, 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Pumice, 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 SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
LuluGoldOccurrenceVein
Iron MountainPumiceUnknown
UnknownPumiceUnknown

Every working recorded in Grand County

Storms near this property

2 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grand Lake, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports in 2021: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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
July 2021Flash FloodGrand Lake$25,000Flash flooding along Tonahutu Creek forced the shut down of Grand Lake's hydro plant.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindGrand Lake-Strong microburst winds damaged several boats at Grand Lake. Two large pontoon boats were lifted out of the water, one landed upside down near a home.

Every storm recorded in Grand 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
Grand River Ditch1.7 miles1976
Dutchtown1.8 miles1988
Milner Pass Road Camp Mess Hall and House2.4 miles1987
Timber Creek Campground Comfort Station No. 2454.2 miles1988
Timber Creek Campground Comfort Station No. 2464.2 miles1988
Timber Creek Road Camp Barn4.3 miles1987

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 77001562 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Grand CountyAll 22 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.