North Fork Road

North Fork Road
Location North Fork drainage, Fish Creek to Kintla Lake, Glacier NP, West Glacier, Montana
Coordinates 48°32′53″N 113°59′11″W / 48.54806°N 113.98639°WCoordinates: 48°32′53″N 113°59′11″W / 48.54806°N 113.98639°W
Architect NPS Landscape Division
Architectural style No Style Listed
Governing body 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]

References

  1. ↑ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2008-04-15.
  2. ↑ "North Fork Truck Trail". List of Classified Structures. National Park Service. 2008-11-14.
  3. ↑ Ann Hubber (June 1995). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: North Fork Road" (pdf). National Park Service.