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The Fall River Pass Ranger Station in
Rocky Mountain National Park Rocky Mountain National Park is a List of national parks of the United States, national park of the United States located approximately northwest of Denver in north-central Colorado, within the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. The park is s ...
was designed by
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landscape architect Daniel Ray Hull in the
National Park Service Rustic National Park Service rustic – sometimes colloquially called Parkitecture – is a style of architecture that developed in the early and middle 20th century in the United States National Park Service (NPS) through its efforts to create building ...
style. Built in 1922, the stone structure is similar in design to the Chasm Lake Shelter. Between 1933 and 1937 the ranger station was converted to a museum. The ranger station is associated with the construction of the nearby
Trail Ridge Road Trail Ridge Road is the name for the stretch of U.S. Highway 34 (Colorado), U.S. Highway 34 that traverses Rocky Mountain National Park from Estes Park, Colorado in the east to Grand Lake, Colorado in the west. Together with the connecting Be ...
. Located above the tree line, the building has a trap door in the roof to allow access when the door is blocked by drifting snow.


See also

* Fall River Pump House and Catchment Basin *
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* Buildings and structures in Larimer County, Colorado National Register of Historic Places in Rocky Mountain National Park Government buildings completed in 1922 National Park Service ranger stations Park buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Colorado Historic American Buildings Survey in Colorado National Register of Historic Places in Larimer County, Colorado 1922 establishments in Colorado National Park Service rustic in Colorado {{Colorado-NRHP-stub