Rising Sun Auto Camp

Rising Sun Auto Camp
Location 500 ft. N of Going-to-the-Sun Rd. at St. Mary Lake, Glacier NP, St. Mary, Montana
Coordinates 48°41′46″N 113°31′6″W / 48.69611°N 113.51833°W / 48.69611; -113.51833Coordinates: 48°41′46″N 113°31′6″W / 48.69611°N 113.51833°W / 48.69611; -113.51833
Architect Glacier Park Hotel Co.
Architectural style Other
MPS Glacier National Park MPS
NRHP Reference # 95001574
Added to NRHP January 19, 1996[1]

The Rising Sun Auto Camp, also known as the Roes Creek Auto Camp and the East Glacier Auto Camp preserves a portion of the built-up area of Glacier National Park that documents the second phase of tourist development in the park. After the creation of a series of hotels for train-borne visitors, courtesy of the Great Northern Railway's hotel concession, facilities were developed for the increasing numbers of automobile-borne tourists, drawn to Glacier by the Going-to-the-Sun Road. The Rising Sun Auto Camp was created for these new tourists. Located in the Rising Sun region of the park, it includes a rustic general store,[2] built in 1941 by the Glacier Park Hotel Company, surrounded by a number of log tourist cabins.,[3] as well as a shower and laundry house and other supporting structures.[4]

Rising Sun tourist cabin

See also

References

  1. ↑ Staff (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ "Rising Sun General Store/Motel". List of Classified Structures. National Park Service. 2008-11-13.
  3. ↑ "Rising Sun Cabin (Duplex) 11A/11B". List of Classified Structures. National Park Service. 2008-11-13.
  4. ↑ Ann Hubber (June 1995). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Rising Sun Auto Camp" (pdf). National Park Service.


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