A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.
From the record
“Travelers' Rest was a stopping point of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, located about one mile south of Lolo, Montana. The expedition stopped from September 9 to September 11, 1805, before crossing the Bitterroot Mountains, and again on the return trip from June 30 to July 3, 1806.”
Wikipedia article Travelers' Rest (Lolo, Montana), CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 90 National Register listings published here for Missoula County · listed in 1966 · category: Site · a National Historic Landmark.
National Register reference number.66000437- 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
200 since 1992
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 200 fires within 5 miles of Traveler's Rest
between 1992 and 2020, burning about 466 acres in total. 39 started naturally. 4 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
76
Debris and open burning
57
Natural
39
Recreation and ceremony
9
Equipment and vehicle use
6
Arson/incendiarism
4
Misuse of fire by a minor
4
Fireworks
4
Other causes
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
7 workings within 5 miles of Traveler's Rest: 3 occurrences, 2 past producers, 1 unknown, 1 producer.
1 still produces. What was taken out: Silica, Pumice, Quartz, Mica. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Lolo, the town this property stands in, in 19 storm reports between 1995 and 2023: 9 thunderstorm wind, 8 hail, 1 heavy rain, 1 flood.
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.
Multiple car crashes were reported on Interstate-90 near Missoula as a thunderstorm with strong winds and heavy rain moved through. A wind gust of 52 mph was recorded at the Missoula International Airport, with the main core of the storm passing to the east of the airport.
The Missoula dispatch reported a lot of tree limbs down around town with numerous power lines down. A couple of lightning strikes started fires with one strike to a house in Missoula and a field in Florence. A private weather sensor located southeast of Lolo recorded a wind gust to 60 mph ahead of the main thunderstorm cells.
The USGS Bitterroot River gauge at Missoula reported a peak height of 11.11 feet (11 ft. is the minor flood stage) and peak discharge rate of 17,300 cubic feet per second at 8:30 pm MDT on May 25. A NWS employee reported field flooding between Lolo and Missoula.
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.
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.
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