Rising Sun Auto Camp

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

One of 29 National Register listings published here for Glacier County · listed in 1996 · category: District.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. 500 ft. N of Going-to-the-Sun Rd. at St. Mary Lake, Glacier NP, St. Mary, 59434
When was it listed? January 1996
Category. district
Also known as. Glacier National Park MPS; Glacier National Park MPS
Census division. Glacier National Park
Architectural style. rustic architecture
National Register reference number. 95001574 - 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

14 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 14 fires within 5 miles of Rising Sun Auto Camp between 1994 and 2019, burning about 34,240 acres in total. 8 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
Natural	8
Recreation and ceremony	2
Arson/incendiarism	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1
Debris and open burning	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
6 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	GOAT
5 August 2011	Natural	under an acre	Blackfeet Agency	SWAMP FIRE
30 August 1998	Natural	15 acres	Glacier National Park	RED EAGLE
30 August 1998	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	TWO DOG
11 August 2008	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	RISING SUN
10 August 2018	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Blackfeet Agency	GARDEN
31 July 1996	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Glacier National Park	RED EAGLE
29 July 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	20 acres	Blackfeet Agency	3-MILE II FIRE

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

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
Roes Creek Campground Camptender's Cabin	0.2 miles	1996
Rising Wolf	0.5 miles	2016
Sun Camp Fireguard Cabin	3.2 miles	1999
St. Mary Utility Area Historic District	5.0 miles	1996
Saint Mary Visitor Center, Entrance Station and Checking Stations	5.1 miles	2008
Glacier National Park Tourist Trails-Inside Trail, South Circle, North Circle	5.7 miles	1996

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 95001574 in Record Group 79.
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.