Saint Mary Visitor Center, Entrance Station and Checking Stations

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

From the record

“The Saint Mary Visitor Center in Glacier National Park, with the connected Saint Mary Checking Station and Entrance Station was constructed at the east entrance to the Going-to-the-Sun Road during the Mission 66 park facilities improvement program. Gewalt of the Kalispell, Montana architectural firm Brinkman and Lenon, and was completed in 1967.”
Wikipedia article Saint Mary Visitor Center, Entrance Station and Checking Stations, 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 Wikipedia article

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 4 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. Going-to-the-Sun Rd., 5 mi.E. of US 89, Saint Mary, 59417
When was it listed? April 2008
Category. building
Census division. Glacier National Park
National Register reference number. 08000335 - 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

46 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 46 fires within 5 miles of Saint Mary Visitor Center, Entrance Station and Checking Stations between 1994 and 2020, burning about 275 acres in total. 7 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 ceremony	11
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	10
Debris and open burning	9
Natural	7
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Fireworks	2
Other causes	2
Smoking	1
Power generation/transmission/distribution	1
Arson/incendiarism	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 2018	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Blackfeet Agency	2 POSTS
6 September 1998	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Blackfeet Agency	DIVIDE
5 September 2004	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Flathead National Forest	BUNKER PARK
3 September 2000	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Blackfeet Agency	STMARYSTWO
28 September 2001	Smoking	under an acre	Blackfeet Agency	AQUAFINA
27 September 1997	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.0 acres	Blackfeet Agency	THREECAN
19 September 2009	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Blackfeet Agency	BUD FIRE
16 September 1998	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Blackfeet Agency	2SISTERS

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

4 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
St. Mary Utility Area Historic District	0.9 miles	1996
Rising Sun Auto Camp	5.1 miles	1996
Roes Creek Campground Camptender's Cabin	5.3 miles	1996
Rising Wolf	5.6 miles	2016

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 08000335 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.