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The Fall River Entrance Historic District in Rocky Mountain National Park preserves an area of park administration buildings and employee residences built in the National Park Service Rustic style. The area is close to
Estes Park, Colorado Estes Park is a statutory town in Larimer County, Colorado, United States. The town population was 5,904 at the 2020 United States Census. Estes Park is a part of the Fort Collins, CO Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Front Range Urban Cor ...
, at the original primary entrance to the east side of the park. The area includes the Bighorn Ranger Station, several houses, and some utility buildings. The buildings were designed in the 1920s and 1930s by the
National Park Service The National Park Service (NPS) is an agency of the United States federal government within the U.S. Department of the Interior that manages all national parks, most national monuments, and other natural, historical, and recreational propert ...
Branch of Plans and Designs. Many of the 1930s buildings were built by
Civilian Conservation Corps The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was a voluntary government work relief program that ran from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed, unmarried men ages 18–25 and eventually expanded to ages 17–28. The CCC was a major part of ...
labor. The district was listed 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 ...
in 1988, and enlarged in 2018.


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


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Fall River Road The Old Fall River Road, sometimes referred to as "The Old Road" by park staff in Rocky Mountain National Park, was the first automobile road to penetrate the interior of the park. The road linked the east side of the park near Estes Park with ...


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Park buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Colorado National Park Service rustic in Colorado Buildings and structures in Larimer County, Colorado National Register of Historic Places in Rocky Mountain National Park Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Colorado National Register of Historic Places in Larimer County, Colorado {{Colorado-NRHP-stub