- City:
- Rocky Mountain National Park, CO
- Site Type:
- Parks and Recreation, Shops and Auxiliary Buildings
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Conservation and Public Lands, National Park Service (NPS), Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
- Started:
- 1935
- Completed:
- 1939
- Quality of Information:
- Good
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
In 1935, enrollees in the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) constructed a “museum, curios shop and coffee house” at Fall River Pass. Other CCC ‘boys’ came back in 1939 and added an extension to the building for toilets and a water supply (Brock, p. 43).
Today, the building functions as the Trail Ridge Store and Cafe, and a large, new visitor center has been constructed next to it.
The Trail Ridge Store is built of stone and timber, with a shingle roof, in the classic National Park Service Rustic Style.
CCC enrollees were very helpful to the National Park Service as museum guides, as well.
Source notes
Julia Brock, A History of the CCC in Rocky Mountain National Park. Report to the Rocky Mountain Nature Association and Rocky Mountain National Park, 2005. https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/rmnp/ccc.pdf
Site originally submitted by Joan Greer on August 13, 2022.
Additional contributions by Richard Walker.
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