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The Thunder Lake Patrol Cabin is a small structure in
Rocky Mountain National Park Rocky Mountain National Park is an American national park located approximately northwest of Denver in north-central Colorado, within the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. The park is situated between the towns of Estes Park to the east and ...
,
Colorado Colorado (, other variants) is a state in the Mountain West subregion of the Western United States. It encompasses most of the Southern Rocky Mountains, as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of t ...
. Built in 1930, the by cabin may have been built as a simple shelter, but has more recently been used on an occasional basis as a backcountry patrol cabin in the Wild Basin area. The one story one-room log cabin is not used in the winter, but does have a stove with a stone fireplace. The main cabin is gable-roofed, with a small shed-roofed porch, and is a good example of 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 buildings ...
style. The logs are saddle-notched, projecting an increasing distance at their ends from top to bottom. The Thunder Lake Cabin was placed on the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
on January 29, 1988.


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National Register of Historic Places listings in Boulder County, Colorado __NOTOC__ This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Boulder County, Colorado. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Boulder County, Col ...


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Park buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Colorado National Register of Historic Places in Rocky Mountain National Park National Park Service rustic in Colorado Government buildings completed in 1930 Buildings and structures in Boulder County, Colorado National Park Service ranger stations National Register of Historic Places in Boulder County, Colorado 1930 establishments in Colorado {{Colorado-NRHP-stub