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Photograph of Timberline Cabin
Photograph by Carl or Karen McWilliams (both were NPS historians per page 4 of this PDF ), Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Timberline Cabin

Built in 1925 (National Park Service rustic). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“The Timberline Cabin in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, USA was built in 1925 to house workers on the Fall River Road. The National Park Service rustic style cabin was designed by the National Park Service's Landscape Engineering Division under the direction of Thomas Chalmers Vint.”

Wikipedia article Timberline Cabin, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Grand County · listed in 1988 · category: Building · built in 1925, National Park Service rustic, by 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. Fall River Rd., Estes Park vicinity, 80517
  • When was it listed? January 1988
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Rocky Mountain National Park MRA
  • When was it built? 1925
  • Architectural style. National Park Service rustic
  • Architect. National Park Service
  • National Register reference number. 87001136 - 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

14 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Timberline Cabin between 1994 and 2019, burning about 8 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
Recreation and ceremony6
Natural4
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
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
30 August 2018Natural6.0 acresRocky Mountain National ParkFOREST CANYON
30 August 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreRocky Mountain National ParkFALL RIVER
9 July 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreRocky Mountain National ParkFOREST CANYON
25 July 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreRocky Mountain National ParkJACKSTRAW
21 July 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreRocky Mountain National ParkCHASM FALL
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

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 Timberline Cabin: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Titanium, Metal. 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
Iron DikeIron, Titanium, MetalOccurrence

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Milner Pass Road Camp Mess Hall and House4.2 miles1987
Lulu City Site5.5 miles1977
Grand River Ditch6.7 miles1976
Timber Creek Road Camp Barn7.0 miles1987
Timber Creek Campground Comfort Station No. 2467.0 miles1988
Timber Creek Campground Comfort Station No. 2457.1 miles1988

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 87001136 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.