Upper Lake McDonald Ranger Station Historic District

Upper Lake McDonald Ranger Station Historic District
Nearest city: West Glacier, Montana
Built: 1924
Architect: Weikert,Austin; Powell,Asa
Architectural style: Other
Governing body: National Park Service
MPS: Glacier National Park MRA
NRHP Reference#: 86003699
Added to NRHP: December 16, 1986[1]

The Upper Lake McDonald Ranger Station in Glacier National Park was a formerly isolated site that became an administrative center with the opening of the Going-to-the-Sun Road. The National Park Service Rustic cabin was typical of the preferred style for western park structures of the period.[2] The ranger station is similar to its counterparts at Belly River and Sherburne, as well as the Polebridge Ranger Station residence.[3]

The district includes the ranger station, a woodshed, boathouse, garage, cabin, fire cache and a pumphouse.[3]

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