Upper East Fork Cabin No. 29

Upper East Fork Cabin No. 29
U.S. National Register of Historic Places


Location	Near the E fork of the Toklat River at Mile 43 S of Park Rd., Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska, USA
Coordinates	63°33′30″N 149°46′41″W / 63.55833°N 149.77806°W / 63.55833; -149.77806Coordinates: 63°33′30″N 149°46′41″W / 63.55833°N 149.77806°W / 63.55833; -149.77806
Architect	Alaska Road Commission; National Park Service
Architectural style	Other
MPS	Patrol Cabins, Mount McKinley National Park TR
NRHP Reference #	86003209
Added to NRHP	November 25, 1986^[1]

Upper East Fork Ranger Cabin No. 29, also known as the East Fork Cabin is a log shelter in the National Park Service Rustic style in Denali National Park. The cabin is part of a network of shelters for patrolling park rangers throughout the park. It is a standard design by the National Park Service Branch of Plans and Designs and was built in 1929.^[2] It was built in 1929 by the Alaska Road Commission as a shelter for crews working on the trans-park road, one of four shelters built at ten-mile intervals along the road. The cabin was used by Adolph Murie as a base for his program of wolf observation in 1940 and 1941.^[3]

References

↑ Staff (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ "Upper East Fork Patrol Cabin". List of Classified Structures. National Park Service. 2008-11-24.
↑ "National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Upper East Fork Cabin No. 29" (pdf). National Park Service. 1986.

External links

Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. AK-32-B, "Mount McKinley Patrol, Upper East Fork Cabin No.29, East Fork Toklat River, mile 43, Cantwell, Denali Borough, AK", 1 photo, 2 data pages, 1 photo caption page

National Register of Historic Places in Denali National Park

Historic districts	Mount McKinley National Park Headquarters District Teklanika Archeological District

NRHP properties	Ewe Creek Ranger Cabin No. 8 Igloo Creek Cabin No. 25 Lower East Fork Ranger Cabin No. 9 Lower Toklat River Ranger Cabin No. 18 Lower Windy Creek Ranger Cabin No. 15 Moose Creek Ranger Cabin No. 19 Riley Creek Ranger Cabin No. 20 Sanctuary River Cabin No. 31 Sushana River Ranger Cabin No. 17 Toklat Ranger Station-Pearson Cabin No. 4 Upper East Fork Cabin No. 29 Upper Toklat River Cabin No. 24 Upper Windy Creek Ranger Cabin No. 7

See also: National Register of Historic Places listings in Denali National Park and Preserve

Properties on the National Register of Historic Places in Alaska

	Boroughs

	Aleutians East Anchorage Bristol Bay Denali Fairbanks North Star Haines Juneau Kenai Peninsula Ketchikan Gateway Kodiak Island Lake and Peninsula Matanuska-Susitna North Slope Northwest Arctic Sitka Skagway Wrangell Yakutat

	Census areas

	Aleutians West Bethel Dillingham Hoonah–Angoon Nome Petersburg Prince of Wales–Hyder Southeast Fairbanks Valdez–Cordova Yukon–Koyukuk

	There are no sites listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Kusilvak Census Area.

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