Photograph of Glacier National Park Tourist Trails — Photograph by Todd Murray, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Glacier National Park Tourist Trails-Inside Trail, South Circle, North Circle

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

From the record

“The Glacier National Park Tourist Trails, including the Inside Trail, South Circle Trail and North Circle Trail, were established in Glacier National Park to connect a series of tourist camps and hotels established by the Great Northern Railway between 1910 and 1915. Prior to the construction of the Going-to-the-Sun Road, these trails were the primary form of circulation within the park.”
Wikipedia article Glacier National Park Tourist Trails, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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

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

The listing

Listed as. Glacier National Park Tourist Trails--Inside Trail, South Circle, North Circle - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. Inside Trail, South Circle and North Circle Trails, 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
National Register reference number. 95001579 - 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

12 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 12 fires within 5 miles of Glacier National Park Tourist Trails-Inside Trail, South Circle, North Circle between 1996 and 2017, burning about 4,893 acres in total. 10 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	10
Recreation and ceremony	1
Equipment and vehicle use	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
20 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	CRACKER
8 August 2006	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	HEAVY RUNNER
6 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	GOAT
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
25 August 2000	Natural	22 acres	Glacier National Park	GRINNEL POINT
11 August 2017	Natural	under an acre	Glacier National Park	PIEGAN
29 July 2011	Equipment and vehicle use	20 acres	Blackfeet Agency	3-MILE II FIRE

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 Glacier National Park Tourist Trails-Inside Trail, South Circle, North Circle: 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
Sun Camp Fireguard Cabin	3.4 miles	1999
Logan Pass Visitor Center	4.2 miles	2008
MORNING EAGLE (carvel-planked wooden vessel)	4.7 miles	2018
Many Glacier Hotel Historic District	5.2 miles	1976
Many Glacier Barn and Bunkhouse	5.3 miles	1996
Many Glacier Campground Camptender's Cabin	5.4 miles	1996

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 95001579 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.