Logan Pass Visitor Center

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

From the record

“The Logan Pass Visitor Center in Glacier National Park was constructed at the summit of the Going-to-the-Sun Road during the Mission 66 park facilities improvement program. The design concept was originated by architect Cecil J.”
Wikipedia article Logan Pass Visitor Center, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 29 National Register listings published here for Glacier County · listed in 2008 · 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. Going-to-the-Sun Rd., 18 mi. W. of US 89, Saint Mary, 59928
When was it listed? April 2008
Category. building
Architectural style. modern architecture
Architect. Cecil J. Doty
National Register reference number. 08000334 - 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

18 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 18 fires within 5 miles of Logan Pass Visitor Center between 1992 and 2017, burning about 5,012 acres in total. 17 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
Natural	17
Recreation and ceremony	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
13 September 1996	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	BLICK
1 September 2012	Natural	160 acres	Glacier National Park	AVALANCHE
1 September 2007	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	AVALANCHE
8 August 2006	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	HEAVY RUNNER
7 August 1993	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	CHALET
31 August 1997	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Glacier National Park	OUTBOUND
26 August 2011	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	HEAVY RUNNER
2 August 2001	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	HAYSTACK

Every fire recorded in Glacier 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 Logan Pass Visitor Center: 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper. 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
	Cracker Lake Mine	Copper	Prospect

Every working 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

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Going-to-the-Sun Road	4.1 miles	1983
Glacier National Park Tourist Trails-Inside Trail, South Circle, North Circle	4.2 miles	1996
Sun Camp Fireguard Cabin	6.0 miles	1999
MORNING EAGLE (carvel-planked wooden vessel)	6.6 miles	2018
Many Glacier Campground Camptender's Cabin	7.1 miles	1996
Swiftcurrent Auto Camp Historic District	7.3 miles	1996

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 08000334 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.
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.