Summerland Trail Shelter

Built in 1934 (rustic architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.

From the record

One of 215 National Register listings published here for Pierce County · listed in 1991 · category: Building · built in 1934, rustic architecture, by http://www.wikidata.org/.well-known/genid/2c69477ef3d3be963787a82090677cac.

Sources: 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. Mt. Rainier National Park, Sunrise, 98304
When was it listed? March 1991
Category. building
Also known as. Mt. Rainier National Park MPS
Census division. Mount Rainier
When was it built? 1934
Architectural style. rustic architecture
Architect. http://www.wikidata.org/.well-known/genid/2c69477ef3d3be963787a82090677cac
National Register reference number. 91000185 - 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

26 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 26 fires within 5 miles of Summerland Trail Shelter between 1994 and 2018, burning about 8 acres in total. 22 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	22
Recreation and ceremony	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2

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 1999	Natural	under an acre	Mount Rainier National Park	WHITE
3 August 2000	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Mount Rainier National Park	WHITERIVER
3 August 1994	Natural	under an acre	Mount Rainier National Park	COLD BASIN
28 August 2002	Natural	under an acre	Mount Rainier National Park	BOULDER2
28 August 2002	Natural	under an acre	Mount Rainier National Park	BOULDER1
24 August 2002	Natural	under an acre	Mount Rainier National Park	SHEEPSKULL
21 August 1998	Natural	under an acre	Mount Rainier National Park	SHADOW
2 August 2001	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Mount Rainier National Park	WRCGD21

Every fire recorded in Pierce County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Summerland Trail Shelter: 1 past producer, 1 unknown. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Copper, Gold. 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
	Black Hawk	Gold	Unknown
	Starbonit	Copper	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Pierce 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
White River Patrol Cabin	2.7 miles	1991
Indian Bar Trail Shelter	2.9 miles	1991
White River Bridge	2.9 miles	1991
Sunrise Comfort Station	3.2 miles	1991
Yakima Park Stockade Group	3.5 miles	1987
Sunrise Historic District	3.5 miles	1991

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91000185 in Record Group 79.
Pierce County	All 215 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.