Timber Creek Road Camp Barn

Built in 1930 (National Park Service rustic). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“The Timber Creek Road Camp Barn was built in 1931 to support the construction of Trail Ridge Road in Rocky Mountain National Park. The design is attributed to Thomas Chalmers Vint of the National Park Service Branch of Plans and Designs.”
Wikipedia article Timber Creek Road Camp Barn, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Grand County · listed in 1987 · category: Building · built in 1930, National Park Service rustic, by Thomas Chalmers Vint, National Park Service.

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

The listing

Listing status. The Park Service records this property as Removed.
What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. Approx. 200 yds. south of Columbine Lake Rd., 450 yards west of Kawuneeche Visitor Center, 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? 1930
Architectural style. National Park Service rustic
Architect. Thomas Chalmers Vint, National Park Service
National Register reference number. 87001134 - 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

17 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 17 fires within 5 miles of Timber Creek Road Camp Barn between 1994 and 2019, burning about 43 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 3 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	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Arson/incendiarism	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Smoking	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
18 September 2010	Arson/incendiarism	40 acres	Rocky Mountain National Park	ONAHU
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.
26 July 2003	Natural	under an acre	Rocky Mountain National Park	DICK ROAD
25 July 2019	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Rocky Mountain National Park	JACKSTRAW
22 July 2008	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland	BOWEN GULCH

Every fire recorded in Grand County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Timber Creek Road Camp Barn: 1 producer, 1 occurrence. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Lead, Zinc, Copper, Silver, Gold, 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
	Lulu	Gold	Occurrence	Vein
	Wolverine Mine	Lead, Zinc, Copper, Silver, Gold	Producer	Vein

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
Timber Creek Campground Comfort Station No. 246	0.1 miles	1988
Timber Creek Campground Comfort Station No. 247	0.2 miles	1988
Timber Creek Campground Comfort Station No. 245	0.2 miles	1988
Holzwarth Historic District	0.8 miles	1977
Milner Pass Road Camp Mess Hall and House	3.1 miles	1987
Grand River Ditch	3.3 miles	1976

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 87001134 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.