Cascade Boy Scout Camp

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

From the record

“Cascade Boy Scout Camp is a camp near Durango in San Juan County, Colorado, United States that is associated with Scouting in Colorado. The lodge building, also known as Cascade Lodge or Boy Scout Lodge, was built in 1928 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.”
Wikipedia article Cascade Boy Scout Camp, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 6 National Register listings published here for San Juan County · listed in 1988 · 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. Adjacent to Lime Creek Rd., San Juan National Forest, Durango, 81301
When was it listed? September 1988
Category. building
Census division. Silverton
Architectural style. rustic architecture
National Register reference number. 88001529 - 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

57 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 57 fires within 5 miles of Cascade Boy Scout Camp between 1994 and 2020, burning about 620 acres in total. 14 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 ceremony	23
Natural	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	8
Railroad operations and maintenance	5
Arson/incendiarism	2
Debris and open burning	1
Fireworks	1
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
5 September 2020	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Durango Fire Rescue Authority	N/A
4 September 2002	Natural	under an acre	San Juan National Forest	CASCADE VILLAGE
10 September 2018	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	San Juan National Forest	1296
19 August 2002	Natural	under an acre	San Juan National Forest	CASCADE 2
18 August 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	San Juan National Forest	HERIN
17 August 1999	Natural	under an acre	San Juan National Forest	PASTURE WFU
16 August 2002	Railroad operations and maintenance	556 acres	San Juan National Forest	SCHAFF II
8 July 2000	Smoking	under an acre	San Juan National Forest	HERMOSA ROAD

Every fire recorded in San Juan County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 17 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 17 workings within 5 miles of Cascade Boy Scout Camp: 8 occurrences, 8 past producers, 1 producer. 1 still produces. What was taken out: Silver, Copper, Gold, Lead. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
American Minerals	Gold, Copper, Lead, Silver, Zinc	Past Producer
Cascade District	Silver, Copper, Lead, Zinc, Gold	Past Producer	1883, 1925
Sarah G Claims	Silver, Lead, Copper	Producer	Cerargyrite, Chalcopyrite, Galena
Sarah G. Claim	Lead, Copper, Silver, Zinc, Gold	Occurrence	1953
Silver Star	Lead, Silver, Zinc, Gold	Past Producer
Unnamed Prospect	Zinc, Lead, Silver, Copper, Gold	Occurrence	Vein
Unnamed Prospects	Copper, Lead, Silver	Occurrence	Vein
Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Sand and Gravel
Moly Group	Lead	Occurrence
Sand & Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in San Juan 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.

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 88001529 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
San Juan County	All 6 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.