Located on the side of Prospect Mountain in Estes Park, the Clatworthy Place includes the home and studio of Fred Payne Clatworthy, a highly successful commercial photographer and promoter of American Western landscapes.  Clatworthy was among the first photographers in Colorado to experiment with the Autochrome process.  Invented in France, Autochrome was the first photographic process to successfully produce color images directly from nature without hand coloring. 

Located on a 4.8-acre site, the 1908 cabin served as a vacation retreat for the Albert Birch family until the early 1980s.  A good local example of Rustic style architecture, its natural setting and the use of native log and stone as building materials characterize the style. 

Dr. Beatrice Willard, an internationally recognized tundra ecologist who made significant contributions to local, state and federal environmental policy, installed two alpine tundra research plots in Rocky Mountain National Park in 1959.  Both properties represent Dr. Willard’s life work as a tundra ecologist and fostered her role as an ecologist, educator, and negotiator.  

The Civilian Conservation Corps constructed a number of buildings and structures in Rocky Mountain National Park during the 1930s.  The Bear Lake Comfort Station represents a modest structure exhibiting the use of uncoursed rubblestone indicative of the Rustic style employed by the CCC. 

The 1916 inn is associated with the development of tourism in the Estes Park area.  It is an excellent example of the Rustic style, a popular design for tourist facilities built in the Colorado Rockies during the first half of the 20th century.

Although arroyo trapping was a common Archaic period hunting tactic, Kaplan-Hoover represents one of the largest single-event arroyo kills ever documented.  It is the first specialized bison kill and butchery site known for this time period in Colorado. 

Constructed in 1919, the well proportioned building conveys a sense of strength and stability in keeping with its function as a bank.  A good local example of Commercial style architecture, its symmetrical façade, classical detailing, and patterned brick-work present a distinguished and commanding presence.

The Graves Camp Rural Historic District is important for its association with the prominent Warren Live Stock Company, which operated throughout southern Wyoming and northern Colorado between the 1880s and 1960s.

The 1925 building is the last surviving school of District No. 55.

The long, one-story hewn log structure, built in 1862, is located on the old Overland Mail route.  Remarkably intact, the station is situated in a landscape that remains rural.