Garrison Concourse

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.

From the record

“The Garrison Concourse is a roadside park on Mille Lacs Lake in Garrison, Minnesota, United States. The site consists of a wide parking area and scenic overlook projecting out into the lake, plus landscaped parkland along the shore in both directions.”
Wikipedia article Garrison Concourse, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 31 National Register listings published here for Crow Wing County · listed in 2013 · category: Site.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 structuress, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. Jct. of MN 169 & MN 18, Garrison, 56450
When was it listed? December 2013
Category. site
Also known as. Federal Relief Construction in Minnesota MPS AD; Federal Relief Construction in Minnesota MPS AD
City. Garrison city
Architectural style. National Park Service rustic
National Register reference number. 13000882 - assigned by the National Park Service when the property was listed.

Fires near this property

97 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 97 fires within 5 miles of Garrison Concourse between 1992 and 2020, burning about 245 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 18 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
Debris and open burning	47
Arson/incendiarism	18
Equipment and vehicle use	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9
Recreation and ceremony	3
Smoking	3
Natural	1
Misuse of fire by a minor	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
8 September 2003	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 September 2004	Arson/incendiarism	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
26 September 2006	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
25 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
5 August 1992	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
3 June 2009	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
8 May 1994	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named
7 May 1992	Debris and open burning	7.0 acres	Minnesota Department of Natural Resources	not named

Every fire recorded in Crow Wing 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 Garrison Concourse: 1 producer. All of them still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where	Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
	Garrison Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Crow Wing County

Storms near this property

4 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Garrison, the town this property stands in, in 4 storm reports between 1996 and 2022: 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
September 2017	Thunderstorm Wind	Garrison	-	A few trees were knocked down and partially blocking Minnesota Highway 169.
August 2007	Thunderstorm Wind	Garrison	-	Numerous trees were blown down by the strong thunderstorm winds.
June 2022	Hail	Garrison	-	no account filed
August 1996	Thunderstorm Wind	Garrison	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Crow Wing 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

3 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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Bridge No. 5265-Garrison	0.4 miles	1998
St. Alban's Bay Culvert at Mille Lacs Lake	1.5 miles	2015
Kenney Lake Overlook	2.3 miles	2015

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 13000882 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Crow Wing County	All 31 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.