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Photograph of Grand Lake Lodge
Photograph by Billy Hathorn, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Grand Lake Lodge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.

From the record

“The Grand Lake Lodge hotel was opened in 1920 to serve tourists visiting Rocky Mountain National Park via the Trail Ridge Road, completed the same year. Located in Grand Lake, Colorado, the rustic lodge was founded by Frank Huntington and Roe Emery on land owned by the National Park Service at the edge of the park.”

Wikipedia article Grand Lake Lodge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 22 National Register listings published here for Grand County · listed in 1993 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. 15500 US 34, Grand Lake, 80447
  • When was it listed? July 1993
  • Category. district
  • Census division. Granby
  • Architectural style. rustic architecture
  • National Register reference number. 93000663 - 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

72 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 72 fires within 5 miles of Grand Lake Lodge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 810 acres in total. 21 started naturally. 1 was 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 ceremony25
Natural21
Missing data/not specified/undetermined19
Equipment and vehicle use2
Smoking2
Debris and open burning1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Arson/incendiarism1

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
6 September 2018Naturalunder an acreGrand Lake Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
20 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandSODA CREEK
18 September 2010Arson/incendiarism40 acresRocky Mountain National ParkONAHU
15 September 2019Naturalunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandKAWUNEECHE
15 September 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandSOUTH SUPPLY
12 September 2017Naturalunder an acreGrand Lake Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
9 August 1995Naturalunder an acreRocky Mountain National ParkSUMMERLAND
6 August 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland123

Every fire recorded in Grand County

Mines and quarries near this property

4 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 4 workings within 5 miles of Grand Lake Lodge: 3 occurrences, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Stone, Crushed/Broken. 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
Gravel PitStone, Crushed/BrokenUnknown
Stillwater Creek PlacersGoldOccurrencePlacer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceSedimentary
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceGravel

Every working recorded in Grand County

Storms near this property

2 since 2021

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Grand Lake, the town this property stands in, in 2 storm reports in 2021: 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. 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 2021Flash FloodGrand Lake$25,000Flash flooding along Tonahutu Creek forced the shut down of Grand Lake's hydro plant.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindGrand Lake-Strong microburst winds damaged several boats at Grand Lake. Two large pontoon boats were lifted out of the water, one landed upside down near a home.

Every storm 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
Smith-Eslick Cottage Court0.6 miles2016
Kauffman House0.7 miles1974
Shadow Mountain Lookout2.0 miles1978
Shadow Mountain Trail2.2 miles2008
Greenwood Lodge4.3 miles2010
Tonahutu Creek Trail4.6 miles2008

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 93000663 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.
  • 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.