Kootenai Creek Snowshoe Cabin

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Kootenai Creek Snowshoe Cabin
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Nearest city St. Mary, Montana
Coordinates 48°51′55″N113°54′28″W / 48.86528°N 113.90778°W / 48.86528; -113.90778
Built1926
ArchitectNational Park Service
MPS Glacier National Park MPS
NRHP reference No. 99000775
Added to NRHPJuly 1, 1999 [1]

The Kootenai Creek Snowshoe Cabin was built in Glacier National Park in 1926. The rustic log structure comprises a single room with a woodstove, and a small cellar food cache. The cabin was situated on the patrol route from the Goat Haunt ranger station to the Fifty Mountain-Flattop region, about eight miles upstream from the ranger station. Unlike most patrol cabins, it is isolated from the park's main trail routes. [2] [3]

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References

  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. "Kootenai Creek Snowshoe Cabin". List of Classified Structures. National Park Service. November 13, 2008. Archived from the original on May 21, 2011. Retrieved November 13, 2008.
  3. Bruce Fladmark (August 17, 1998). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Kootenai Creek Snowshoe Cabin" (pdf). National Park Service.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)