Cold Meadows Guard Station

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Cold Meadows Guard Station
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Nearest cityNortheast of McCall in the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness and the Payette National Forest, in Idaho County, Idaho
Coordinates 45°17′10″N114°56′28″W / 45.28611°N 114.94111°W / 45.28611; -114.94111
Area3.8 acres (1.5 ha)
Built1918, 1923, 1929, 1931, 1935
Architectural style Forest Service rustic style
NRHP reference No. 94001017 [1]
Added to NRHPAugust 19, 1994

The Cold Meadows Guard Station is a ranger station located northeast of McCall, Idaho in the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness and the Payette National Forest. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. [1]

The listing included five contributing buildings and one contributing structure: a dwelling, a bunkhouse, a storehouse, a woodshed, an outhouse, and a "Fly Shed". The Fly Shed, a 21 by 30 feet (6.4 m × 9.1 m) structure built of logs and canvas, was built in 1918; the rest of the complex was complete by 1935. [2]

The NRHP nomination asserts that "the guard/ranger station complex is among the most remote in the lower 48 states." [2]

References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. 1 2 John Elliott; Donna Hartmans (March 1994). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Cold Meadows Guard Station". National Park Service . Retrieved September 19, 2017. With eight photos from 1991.