The Upper Lake McDonald Ranger Station in Glacier National Park was a formerly isolated site that became an administrative center with the opening of the

Going-to-the-Sun Road Going-to-the-Sun Road is a scenic mountain road in the Rocky Mountains of the western United States, in Glacier National Park in Montana. The Sun Road, as it is sometimes abbreviated in National Park Service documents, is the only road that trave ...

. 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 ...

cabin was typical of the preferred style for western park structures of the period. The ranger station is similar to its counterparts at

Belly River Belly River is a river in northwest Montana, United States and southern Alberta, Canada. It is a tributary of the Oldman River, itself a tributary of the South Saskatchewan River. The name of the river may come from the Blackfoot word of , meanin ...

and Sherburne, as well as the Polebridge Ranger Station residence. The district includes the ranger station, a woodshed, boathouse, garage, cabin, fire cache and a pumphouse. The boathouse burned in the Howe Ridge Fire of 2018 and only the foundation remains. The ranger station itself and other buildings were saved.

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Ranger stations in Glacier National Park (U.S.) Park buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Montana National Park Service rustic in Montana Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Montana National Register of Historic Places in Flathead County, Montana National Register of Historic Places in Glacier National Park 1924 establishments in Montana Residential buildings completed in 1924 Log buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Montana {{Montana-NRHP-stub