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Canyon Creek Shelter

Built in 1939 (National Park Service rustic). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

“The Canyon Creek Shelter, also known as the Sol Duc Falls Shelter, is a rustic trail shelter in Olympic National Park. It is the last remaining trail shelter built in the park by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) from Camp Elwha.”

Wikipedia article Canyon Creek Shelter, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 43 National Register listings published here for Clallam County · listed in 2007 · category: Building · built in 1939, National Park Service rustic, by National Park Service.

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.
  • Address. Approx. .9 mi. N of the Upper Sol Duc River Trailhead, Port Angeles, 98520
  • When was it listed? July 2007
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Olympic National Park MPS
  • When was it built? 1939
  • Architectural style. National Park Service rustic
  • Architect. National Park Service
  • National Register reference number. 07000712 - 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.

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.

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 07000712 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Clallam CountyAll 43 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.