Trail Ridge Store – Rocky Mountain National Park CO

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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