Red Star Lodge and Sawmill

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.

From the record

“The Red Star Lodge and Sawmill, also known as the Shoshone Lodge, is a dude ranch in Shoshone National Forest near the east entrance to Yellowstone National Park. Built between 1924 and 1950, the ranch includes a rustic log lodge surrounded by cabins and support buildings.”
Wikipedia article Red Star Lodge and Sawmill, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 38 National Register listings published here for Park County · listed in 2003 · category: District.

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 24 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. 349 Yellowstone Hwy., Cody, 82414
When was it listed? October 2003
Category. district
Also known as. Dude Ranches along the Yellowstone Highway in the Shoshone National Forest
Census division. Cody
Architectural style. rustic architecture
National Register reference number. 03001106 - 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

27 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 27 fires within 5 miles of Red Star Lodge and Sawmill between 1992 and 2018, burning about 1,654 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
Power generation/transmission/distribution	7
Recreation and ceremony	3
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	3
Other causes	2
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Smoking	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
28 September 2009	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Shoshone National Forest	EAST
22 September 2009	Natural	326 acres	Shoshone National Forest	CASTLE
8 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Shoshone National Forest	CASTLE
3 August 2010	Power generation/transmission/distribution	under an acre	Shoshone National Forest	KITTY CREEK POWERLIN
27 August 1999	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Shoshone National Forest	PAHASKA
26 August 2003	Natural	under an acre	Shoshone National Forest	CANFIELD
2 August 2005	Natural	under an acre	Yellowstone National Park	CODY PEAK
18 August 2000	Natural	1,300 acres	Wyoming State Forestry	not named

Every fire recorded in Park County

Storms near this property

31 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cody, the town this property stands in, in 31 storm reports between 1997 and 2025: 10 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 5 wildfire, 4 flash flood. The reports record 5 injuries. 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.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2000	Lightning	Cody	5 hurt	no account filed
July 1998	Hail	Cody	$35,000	no account filed
May 2015	Flash Flood	Cody	$10,000	A thunderstorm rapidly developed to the south of Cody and tracked north over the city producing heavy rain and copious amounts of small hail. Hail drifts were measured in feet in some areas with a few low spots accumulating close to six feet of hail. The hail prevented the heavy rain from draining easily and water accumulated on area roads. Several business owners in downtown Cody reported minor flooding as the water piled up in the streets, especially along Sheridan Avenue. A bakery had water on the floors and in the basement and a gift shop flooded.
July 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Cody	$2,000	Strong thunderstorm winds blew down trees onto power lines that caused power outages to 400 customers. A maximum wind gust of 68 mph was reported at the Powell airport.
May 2025	Thunderstorm Wind	Cody	-	Wind gust to 66 mph on the mesonet station PC261 Cedar Mountain near Cody, WY.
May 2018	Hail	Cody	-	A television station forwarded a report of quarter size hail to the east of Cody.
June 2014	Hail	Cody	-	The public reported nickel sized hail on the west side of Cody.
May 2013	Hail	Cody	-	Nickel sized hail was reported by a CoCoRaHs observer on the west side of Cody.
July 2011	Hail	Cody	-	Hail to the size of quarters was observed in and near Cody.
July 2003	Wildfire	Cody	-	no account filed
August 2003	Wildfire	Cody	-	no account filed
August 2003	Wildfire	Cody	-	no account filed
September 2003	Wildfire	Cody	-	no account filed
September 2003	Wildfire	Cody	-	no account filed
August 2002	Hail	Cody	-	no account filed
August 2002	Hail	Cody	-	no account filed
May 2001	Hail	Cody	-	no account filed
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Cody	-	no account filed
June 2001	Heavy Rain	Cody	-	no account filed
June 2001	Thunderstorm Wind	Cody	-	no account filed
July 2001	Flash Flood	Cody	-	no account filed
May 2000	Flood	Cody	-	no account filed
June 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Cody	-	no account filed
June 2000	Hail	Cody	-	no account filed
August 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Cody	-	no account filed
July 1998	Thunderstorm Wind	Cody	-	no account filed
July 1998	Hail	Cody	-	no account filed
August 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Cody	-	no account filed
June 1997	Flash Flood	Cody	-	no account filed
May 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Cody	-	no account filed
June 1997	Flash Flood	Cody	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Park 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

4 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
Pahaska Tepee	1.4 miles	1973
Goff Creek Lodge	5.6 miles	2003
Elephant Head Lodge	7.1 miles	2003
Absaroka Mountain Lodge	7.6 miles	2003

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 03001106 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Park County	All 38 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.
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.