Milner Pass Road Camp Mess Hall and House

Built in 1926 (National Park Service rustic). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“The Milner Pass Road Camp Mess Hall and House was built in 1926 was built to support construction crews working on the new Trail Ridge Road in the vicinity of Milner Pass in Rocky Mountain National Park in 1926. The 35-by-18-foot log structure was designed by Daniel Ray Hull of the National Park Service and represents one of the earliest examples of the National Park Service rustic style in the park.”
Wikipedia article Milner Pass Road Camp Mess Hall and House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Grand County · listed in 1987 · category: Building · built in 1926, National Park Service rustic, by Daniel Ray Hull, National Park Service.

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 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Milner Pass Rd., Estes Park, 80447
When was it listed? July 1987
Category. building
Also known as. Rocky Mountain National Park MRA
Census division. Granby
When was it built? 1926
Architectural style. National Park Service rustic
Architect. Daniel Ray Hull, National Park Service
National Register reference number. 87001130 - 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

12 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Milner Pass Road Camp Mess Hall and House 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
Natural	4
Recreation and ceremony	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Smoking	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	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
14 August 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Rocky Mountain National Park	BEAVER CREEK
9 July 2010	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Rocky Mountain National Park	FOREST CANYON
4 July 2012	Smoking	under an acre	Rocky Mountain National Park	BOWEN BAKER TRAIL
30 July 1995	Natural	under an acre	Rocky Mountain National Park	DEVILS PT.
25 July 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Rocky Mountain National Park	JACKSTRAW
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

Every fire recorded in Grand County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Milner Pass Road Camp Mess Hall and House: 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Pumice. 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
	Unknown	Pumice	Unknown

Every working 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Lulu City Site	2.4 miles	1977
Grand River Ditch	2.9 miles	1976
Timber Creek Road Camp Barn	3.1 miles	1987
Timber Creek Campground Comfort Station No. 246	3.1 miles	1988
Timber Creek Campground Comfort Station No. 245	3.2 miles	1988
Timber Creek Campground Comfort Station No. 247	3.3 miles	1988

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87001130 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Grand County	All 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.