GRAND COUNTY
Shadow Mountain Trail
Rocky Mountain National Park, E. side of Shadow Mt. Lake, Grand Lake vicinity
 The trail, constructed in 1930, is part of the twentieth-century
movement to develop national parks for public enjoyment. Shadow
Mountain—known as Pine Ridge (aneXu haw a) in Arapaho—has probably
functioned as a lookout since prehistory. Its 360-degree view surveys
Grand Lake, Middle Park and the national park. The 3.3-mile trail
accesses Shadow Mountain Lookout (also National Register listed),
a fire lookout tower completed in 1933. The trail reflects National
Park Service Naturalistic Design principles of the 1920s through the
1940s. The property is associated with the
Rocky Mountain National Park and the
Historic Park Landscapes in National and State Parks
Resources Multiple Property Submissions. (2003 photograph)
Full nomination (PDF, 197.46kb)
Tonahutu Creek Trail
Rocky Mountain National Park, roughly along Tonahutu Cr. to Flattop Mt., Grand Lake vicinity
The trail, established in 1880, is associated with the late nineteenth
and early twentieth century resort industry around the Grand Lake region.
Like most trails on the west side of Rocky Mountain National Park, the
Tonahutu Creek Trail gained popularity with tourists later than its eastside
counterparts. However, tourists were not the first people to use and
appreciate this trail. The Arapaho historically preferred the Tonahutu
Creek Trail to its alternative, the North Inlet Trail, for reaching
Flattop Mountain from Grand Lake. Later work on the 13-mile trail
reflects the National Park Service’s Naturalistic Design philosophy
of the 1920s through the 1940s. The property is associated with the
Rocky Mountain National Park
and the Historic Park Landscapes in
National and State Parks Resources Multiple Property Submissions. (2003 photograph)
Full Nomination (PDF, 964kb)
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