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Photograph of Skyland Camp-Bowman Lake Ranger Station
Photograph by National Park Service inventory, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Skyland Camp-Bowman Lake Ranger Station

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

From the record

“The Skyland Camp-Bowman Lake Ranger Station in Glacier National Park was originally built as the Culver Boys' Military Academy. The main building, known variously as the Skyland Camp Messhall, Culver Boys' Military Academy Messhall and Skyline Chalet, was built in 1920 and is a good example of National Park Service Rustic architecture.”

Wikipedia article Skyland Camp-Bowman Lake Ranger Station, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 168 National Register listings published here for Flathead County · listed in 1986 · 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.
  • Listed as. Skyland Camp--Bowman Lake Ranger Station - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
  • Address. SW shore of Bowman Lake, West Glacier, 59542
  • When was it listed? February 1986
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Glacier National Park MRA
  • Architectural style. rustic architecture
  • National Register reference number. 86000365 - 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.

Storms near this property

9 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names West Glacier, the town this property stands in, in 9 storm reports between 2004 and 2015: 2 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 2 flood, 2 heavy rain. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
November 2006Flash FloodWest Glacier$7,000,000The Associated Press reported 7.0 million in damages. Glacier National Park received 9.1 of rainfall in 36 hours. An additional .5 to 1.0 million in damages occurred to the park's trails.
February 2015Heavy RainWest Glacier-A rockslide was reported along US-2 just east of West Glacier, MT. The eastbound lane was blocked by softball-sized rocks. Road crews cleared debris and the road was usable again an hour later.
July 2014Heavy RainWest Glacier-The Glacier National Park RAWS reported 0.76 of rainfall in one hour. Other heavy rainfall reports include 0.78 40 min. ending 4:10 pm MDT 3 miles east of Creston and 0.65 in one hour via Hungry Horse RAWS at 6:11 pm MDT.
May 2013FloodWest Glacier-Minor flooding occurred to agricultural lands in the low lying areas adjacent to the middle fork of the Flathead River near West Glacier.
July 2006Thunderstorm WindWest Glacier-no account filed
July 2006Thunderstorm WindWest Glacier-no account filed
May 2006FloodWest Glacier-no account filed
June 2006HailWest Glacier-no account filed
September 2004HailWest Glacier-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Flathead 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 PropertyDistance Listed
Lower Logging Lake Snowshoe Cabin and Boathouse7.1 miles1986

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 86000365 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Flathead CountyAll 168 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.
  • 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.