The Logging Creek Ranger Station is the oldest continually operating administrative site in Glacier National Park. The

rustic Rustic may refer to: *Rural area *Pastoral Architecture * Rustication (architecture), a masonry technique mainly employed in Renaissance architecture * Rustic architecture, an informal architectural style in the United States and Canada with sever ...

log cabin is an early example of what would become a typical style of western park structure. The district includes a cabin used as a residence for the summer fire guard. The site would have been among those inundated by the proposed

Glacier View Dam Glacier View Dam was proposed in 1943 on the North Fork of the Flathead River, on the western border of Glacier National Park in Montana. The tall dam, to be designed and constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the canyon between Hu ...

, which would have flooded much of the North Fork Flathead River valley, including park lands. Proposed in the 1940s, the dam was never built.

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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 Residential buildings completed in 1920 Rustic architecture 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 Log cabins in the United States Log buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Montana 1907 establishments in Montana Residential buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Montana {{Montana-struct-stub