The trail to the summit of Longs Peak reflects the principles of National Park Service Naturalistic Design from the 1920s through the 1940s.  Active tourist use of the trail began in 1873 and continues up until the present day with hundreds of personal accounts repeatedly expressing exhilaration over the scenery and exhaustion from this high-altitude effort.  Initially lodge owners maintained the trail and climbers hired local guides to assist in their mountain ascent.  Between 1900 and 1906, Enos Mills forged his skills as a public speaker and naturalist while guiding visito

The 1883 Fox Mine Office Building is associated with coal mining in the Marshall area. 

Construction on this simple stone building began in early 1935 with local stonemasons hauling rock out of nearby James Creek.  In addition to the Town Board, the building plays host to musicians, school plays, dances, and many other community functions. 

Typical of the vernacular building tradition it represents, this 2½ story, false front, wood frame commercial structure was built some time after 1896.

Organized in 1859, Gold Hill was one of Colorado’s earliest mining camps and remains an excellent example of the pattern of settlement and community development within the 19th century metal mining communities of Boulder County. 

The district includes surviving examples of the Pioneer Log, Commercial Vernacular, and Rustic Tourist building traditions associated with the mountainous portion of Boulder County.  

The trail is associated with the early resort industry and tourism in the Estes Park region, and first appears on a tourist guide map in 1910.

Constructed in 1888, the building is one of two log rural schoolhouses remaining in the county.

Stock Car 5564 is a double-deck car originally built in 1904 to transport livestock.  In 1926 it was rebuilt.  Sources list the car as both a single and double deck, indicating that at some point in its historic period the second deck was added.

The collection of structures on the site includes a root cellar; a circa 1904 house; a barn; a privy; and a circa 1895 house.