National Historic Landmark · Passport to Your National Parks cancellation location · Estes Park, Colorado

Rocky Mountain National Park Administration Building

United States historic place in Estes Park, Colorado. Added to the National Register in 2001, and a National Historic Landmark.

Open to visitNational Historic LandmarkListed 2001Taliesin Associated Architects
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Photos via Wikimedia Commons · 6 in the Commons category

What it is

Wikipedia · Beaver Meadows Visitor Center

Beaver Meadows Visitor Center, also known as Rocky Mountain National Park Administration Building, is the park headquarters and principal visitors center of Rocky Mountain National Park in central northern Colorado. Completed in 1967, it was designed by Taliesin Associated Architects, and was one of the most significant commissions for that firm in the years immediately following the death of founder Frank Lloyd Wright. It was also one of the last major projects completed under the Park Service Mission 66 project. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 2001.

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The record

National Register of Historic Places
Property typeBuilding
AddressCO HWY 36, Estes Park, CO
CountyLarimer County
ListedJan 3, 2001
Reference number01000069
ArchitectTaliesin Associated Architects
Type of placePassport to Your National Parks cancellation location, National Park Service visitor center
DesignationsNational Historic Landmark, National Register of Historic Places contributing property

The nomination form, the document that argues why this place matters, is in the National Archives: Read the nomination ↗

Visiting

Open to the public
AddressCO HWY 36, Estes Park, CO
Websitenps.gov/romo/planyourvisit/visitorcenters.htm ↗
Coordinates40.36617, -105.56091 · Directions ↗
Nearest national park unitRocky Mountain National Park · 7 mi · on Park Atlas
Federal campgrounds nearbyRocky Mountain National Park Moraine Park Campground 2 mi · Rocky Mountain National Park Aspenglen Campground 3 mi · Rocky Mountain National Park Glacier Basin Campground 3 mi
This one you can go inside. Hours and admission change with the season; the website above has the current schedule.

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Sources

Location, dates, type and contributing counts come from the National Park Service's National Register spatial data. Construction date, architect, style, photograph and encyclopedia link come from Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons, matched on reference number 01000069. Nothing here is transcribed by hand. The description under "What it is" is the opening of the Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA.