North Entrance Road Historic District

The North Entrance Road Historic District comprises Yellowstone National Park's North Entrance Road from Gardiner, Montana to the park headquarters at Mammoth Hot Springs, Wyoming, a distance of a little over five miles (8 km). The North Entrance Road was the first major road in the park, necessary to join the U.S. Army station at Fort Yellowstone to the Northern Pacific Railroad station at Gardiner. The road includes the Roosevelt Arch at the northern boundary of the park and winds through rolling terrain before crossing the Gardner River and joining the Grand Loop Road.[2] The road was planned in 1883 by Lieutenant Dan Kingman of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and later on improved by Captain Hiram M. Chittenden of the Corps.,.[3][4] It replaced the old Gardiner High Road which went from behind the Mammoth Hotel north over the ridges west of the river to the town of Gardiner. The first permanent entrance station to house rangers checking vehicle entering the park was constructed in 1921. It replaced temporary tents used by rangers at the Roosevelt Arch.[5]

North Entrance Road Historic District
Nearest cityYellowstone National Park, Montana and Wyoming
Coordinates45°0′24″N 110°41′58″W
Built1883
ArchitectCOE
MPSYellowstone National Park MPS
NRHP reference No.02000529 and 02000530
Added to NRHPMay 22, 2002[1]

The North Entrance Road is an unsigned portion of US 89.

Images of the North Entrance Road Historic District
  • Gardner River Crossing, 1901
  • Lower Gardner River, 1923
  • Grand Loop bridge over Gardner River
  • Northern Pacific Railway station at northern end of road.
  • Stagecoaches en route to Mammoth, 1904
  • Stagecoaches at Mammoth
  • Lower Gardner River road, 1912
  • North Entrance Station, 1922
  • North Entrance Station, 1936
  • New North Entrance Station, 1938
  • North Entrance Station, 1949
  • North Entrance Station, 1990

See also

Further reading
  • Culpin, Mary Shivers (1994). The History of the Construction of the Road System of Yellowstone National Park 1872-1966 (Report). National Park Service.

Notes
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. "North Entrance Road Historic District". National Register of Historic Places. Wyoming State Preservation Office. 2008-10-01.
  3. Marcy Shivers Culpin; Christine Whitacre; Catherine Lentz; Lon Johnson (2001). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: North Entrance Road Historic District" (pdf). National Park Service. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  4. Bartlett, Richard A. (1989). Yellowstone-A Wilderness Besieged. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press. pp. 75–80. ISBN 0-8165-1098-9.
  5. Culpin, Mary Shivers (1994). The History of the Construction of the Road System of Yellowstone National Park 1872-1966 (Report). National Park Service. p. 299.
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