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Photograph of Willow Park Stable
Photograph by Unknown, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Willow Park Stable

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.

From the record

“The Willow Park Stable in Rocky Mountain National Park was designed by National Park Service landscape architect Daniel Ray Hull and built in 1926. The National Park Service Rustic style stables and the nearby Willow Park Patrol Cabin were built to house crews maintaining the Fall River Road.”

Wikipedia article Willow Park Stable, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 110 National Register listings published here for Larimer County · listed in 1987 · category: Building.

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 Pass, Estes Park, 80517
  • When was it listed? July 1987
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Rocky Mountain National Park MRA
  • Census division. Estes Park
  • Architectural style. National Park Service rustic
  • Architect. Daniel Ray Hull, National Park Service
  • National Register reference number. 87001145 - 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 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 13 fires within 5 miles of Willow Park Stable between 1994 and 2018, 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 ceremony5
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
7 August 1994Naturalunder an acreRocky Mountain National ParkSKI SLOPE
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
21 July 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreRocky Mountain National ParkCHASM FALL
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
13 July 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreRocky Mountain National ParkFALLRIVER RD MM3

Every fire recorded in Larimer 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 Willow Park Stable: 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 Larimer County

Storms near this property

20 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Estes Park, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1996 and 2023: 11 hail, 6 lightning, 1 flash flood, 1 tornado. The reports record 2 deaths and 13 injuries. 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 1999LightningEstes Park1 killed, 2 hurtLightning killed a 35-yr old man and seriously injured his wife and young daughter. The family was hiking near the Gore Range Overlook along Trail Ridge Road when the thunderstorm developed, at an elevation of 11,700 feet.
August 1999LightningEstes Park1 killed, 2 hurtLightning killed one hiker and injured two others, while they were hiking a remote drainage in Rocky Mountain National Park.
August 1998LightningEstes Park6 hurtSix people received minor injuries when lightning struck a nearby scenic overlook atop Trail Ridge Road. The charge apparently travelled across the ground and shocked the group.
October 2000LightningEstes Park2 hurtTwo people were injured when they were struck by lightning at the Forest Canyon Overlook, at nearly 12,000 feet elevation along Trail Ridge Road. The thunderstorm formed rapidly overhead. One of the victims was badly burned, the other had no visible injuries.
August 2019LightningEstes Park1 hurtA hiker was seriously injured by lightning while hiking in Rocky Mountain National Park.
July 2011LightningEstes Park$5,000Lightning sparked three fires.
July 2022HailEstes Park-Torrential hail and rain occurred in the town of Estes Park. The hail piled up to a foot deep and snowplows were called in to remove it.
June 2021Heavy RainEstes Park-Moderate to heavy rainfall associated with a thunderstorm produced minor flooding along Trail Ridge Road.
May 2018Tornado (EF0)Estes Park-A weak tornado touched down briefly near Bear Lake with no observable damage.
September 2013Flash FloodEstes Park-Heavy rain caused five very small dams in the Big Elk Meadows area to fail. As a result, a family became trapped when a county road was washed out and floodwaters damaged their home. Road closures included: U.S. 34 east/west, between Loveland and Estes Park; CO14 east/west, between Walden and Ted's Place. Larimer County Roads 27E, 25E, 52E and 54E were all closed near La Porte due to flash flooding. Several roads were also washed out southwest of Loveland and north of Fort Collins.
June 2023HailEstes Park-no account filed
June 2016HailEstes Park-no account filed
July 2010HailEstes Park-no account filed
July 2007HailEstes Park-no account filed
June 2006HailEstes Park-no account filed
July 2005HailEstes Park-no account filed
June 2004HailEstes Park-no account filed
June 1999HailEstes Park-no account filed
June 1996HailEstes Park-no account filed
June 1996HailEstes Park-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Larimer 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
Willow Park Patrol Cabinunder 500 feet1987
Fall River Pump House and Catchment Basin0.8 miles2006
Fall River Pass Historic District1.0 miles2021
Fall River Pass Ranger Station1.2 miles1988
Beatrice Willard Alpine Tundra Research Plots1.5 miles2007
Fall River Road1.6 miles2018

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 87001145 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Larimer CountyAll 110 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.