North Fork Road
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North Fork Road
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| Location: |
North Fork drainage, Fish Creek to Kintla Lake, Glacier NP, West Glacier, Montana |
| Architect: |
NPS Landscape Division |
| Architectural style: |
No Style Listed |
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National Park Service |
| MPS: |
Glacier National Park MPS |
| NRHP Reference#: |
95001572 |
| Added to NRHP: |
January 19, 1996[1] |
The North Fork Road in Glacier National Park was built in 1901. The Butte Oil Company constructed a rough wagon road from Lake McDonald to its oil well at Kintla Lake, encouraging the development of the North Fork region. From 1935-1945, the National Park Service developed the road adding culverts and drains. The unpaved road extends nearly forty miles, almost to the Canadian border.[2]
In 1933 a proposal was advanced to extend the road to Canada to connect with a proposed road on the Canadian side of the border that would create a loop around Glacier and Waterton Lakes National Park. No further action was taken, and by the 1950s the plan had been abandoned.[3]
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- Category:National Register of Historic Places
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