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The St. Mary Utility Area Historic District comprises a support area of Glacier National Park with employee housing and support buildings in the prevailing National Park Service Rustic style. [2] The complex was built by Civilian Conservation Corps labor to replace the administrative facilities at East Glacier Ranger Station in a location more ...
It was designed by Burt L. Gewalt of the Kalispell, Montana architectural firm Brinkman and Lenon, and was completed in 1967. The complex uses common Mission 66 themes such as native stone, and glulam timber construction, combined with a dramatic roof structure that echoes the mountain peaks in the background.
A large housing area for National Park Service personnel is located adjacent to the village, but within the park. U.S. Route 89 passes through the village, which lies between Saint Mary Lake in Glacier National Park and Lower St. Mary Lake on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation.
Rising Sun is a wayside area that has a National Park Service [5] campground, [6] a camp store and gift shop, [7] picnic area, restaurant, [8] as well as a motel and guest cabins [7] [9] which are managed by the park's concessionaire, Xanterra Parks & Resorts. [10]
By the end of the 1969 camping season, KOA had 262 campgrounds in operation across the U.S. By 1972, 10 years after KOA's creation, KOA had 600 franchise campgrounds. The 1970s energy crisis caused the collapse of many travel-oriented businesses, and KOA's stock price sharply declined as fewer Americans drove for vacations.
The Saint Mary Ranger Station (or St. Mary) is a ranger station in Glacier National Park in the U.S. state of Montana. The log cabin was built in 1913 [2] on the east side of the park overlooking Upper Saint Mary Lake. The oldest administrative structures in the park., [3] it features an architecture that foreshadows the National Park Service ...
Glacier County is located in the U.S. state of Montana.As of the 2020 census, the population was 13,778. [1] The county is located in northwestern Montana between the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains, known to the Blackfeet as the "Backbone of the World".
Hell Creek Recreation Area is a public recreation area managed by the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians of Montana occupying 337 acres (136 ha) on the south side of Fort Peck Lake twenty miles (32 km) due north of the community of Jordan, Montana. [4]