This 1898 wood frame rural school survived a fire that destroyed 53 local buildings when it was draped in wet blankets to serve as a fire line.  

Dating from 1894, the rectangular one-story, wood frame church is built into a hillside with its side walls barely visible from the street.  The steeply pitched front gabled roof is topped with a bell tower. 

The circa 1890 Modoc Mill is a good example of industrial architecture associated with Boulder County’s mining history.  This concentration mill of wood and metal reaches four stories in height.  The uppermost story of hewn logs received the ore.  Here gravity bins held the ore until it was fed into a crusher and the stamping apparatus below. 

In 1881, the Greeley, Salt Lake and Pacific Railroad laid rails from Boulder west to the town of Sunset, and in the 1890s the successor Colorado and North Western completed the line to Ward. 

The 1902 Lodge at Los Lagos Ranch is a rare example of a two-story Rustic style summer dwelling. 

The 1902 Lodge at Los Lagos Ranch is a rare example of a two-story Rustic style summer dwelling. 

This one-story, duplex-like Rustic style log building was constructed in 1932.  It is divided into a three room ranger station and a four room seasonal residence. 

Originally built in 1931, the five room one-story Rustic style ranger cabin has a gabled roof that is covered with wood shingles. 

Built in 1930, the small, well maintained log cabin is a good example of the National Park Service’s Rustic style design philosophy as implemented at Rocky Mountain National Park during the 1930s.  

The trail is associated with the early resort industry and tourism in the Estes Park region, from its construction and initial use in 1910 through 1945, the year in which tourism in the park significantly changed due to increased automobile traffic after World War II.