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Photograph of Summit Lake Park
Photograph by Matt Wright, CC BY-SA 2.5. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Summit Lake Park

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

From the record

“Summit Lake Park is a park located along Mount Blue Sky Scenic Byway about 64 miles (100 km) west of Denver, Colorado. The park is 160 acres (0.65 km2) in size and contains alpine tundra.”

Wikipedia article Summit Lake Park, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 24 National Register listings published here for Clear Creek County · listed in 1995 · category: District.

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

The listing

  • Address. Mt. Evans Rd., SW of Idaho Springs, Idaho Springs, 80452
  • When was it listed? February 1995
  • Category. district
  • Also known as. Denver Mountain Parks MPS
  • Census division. Idaho Springs
  • National Register reference number. 95000110 - 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

28 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 28 fires within 5 miles of Summit Lake Park between 1992 and 2019, burning about 3 acres in total. 9 started naturally. None 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 ceremony15
Natural9
Smoking2
Debris and open burning1
Power generation/transmission/distribution1

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 September 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grasslandnot named
30 September 2002Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandECHO LAKE
18 September 2001Smokingunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandNAYLOR
7 August 1992Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grasslandnot named
4 August 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandNAYLOR
27 August 2019Naturalunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandGUANELLA
22 August 2019Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandCHICAGO CREEK TRAIL
7 July 2005Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreArapaho and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National GrasslandLINCOLN

Every fire recorded in Clear Creek 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
Echo Lake Park4.9 miles1995
McClellan House7.4 miles1972
Ore Processing Mill and Dam7.7 miles1971
Hotel de Paris7.7 miles1970
Georgetown Loop Railroad7.7 miles1970
Lebanon and Everett Mine Tunnels7.8 miles1971

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 95000110 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Clear Creek CountyAll 24 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.