Lee Creek Snowshoe Cabin

Built in 1927 (National Park Service rustic). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

From the record

“The Lee Creek Snowshoe Cabin was built in Glacier National Park in 1925-27 by Austin Swikert as a shelter for winter hikers. The log structure consists of a single room with a wood floor, unfinished walls and roof.”
Wikipedia article Lee Creek Snowshoe Cabin, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 29 National Register listings published here for Glacier County · listed in 2001 · category: Building · built in 1927, National Park Service rustic, by National Park Service.

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. NE corner of Glacier National Park, Glacier National Park, 59434
When was it listed? March 2001
Category. building
Also known as. Glacier National Park MPS; Glacier National Park MPS
Census division. Glacier National Park
When was it built? 1927
Architectural style. National Park Service rustic
Architect. National Park Service
National Register reference number. 01000203 - 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

2 since 1999

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 2 fires within 5 miles of Lee Creek Snowshoe Cabin between 1999 and 2007, burning about 5 acres in total. 1 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Natural	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
21 September 1999	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.5 acres	Blackfeet Agency	POWELL
23 July 2007	Natural	3.6 acres	Glacier National Park	LEE RIDGE

Every fire recorded in Glacier 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

1 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	Property	Distance	Listed
	Chief Mountain Border Station and Quarters	1.8 miles	2008

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 01000203 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Glacier County	All 29 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.