On Rist Canyon Road, 1.5 miles west of US 287 B (U.S. 287 B), on the right when traveling west.
This aerial photograph shows the Bellvue Laboratory in the 1920s. The US Department of Agriculture developed the site as a field laboratory for research on irrigation technology. Here former Colorado Agricultural College (now Colorado State . . . — — Map (db m176232) HM
Near Hidden Valley Road, 0.4 miles west of Fall River Road (U.S. 34) when traveling west.
Whose feet walked here first? As you walk this trail, imagine walking with you are other visitors, very different from those you would see today. They carry all their necessary gear: tools, food, clothing, and shelter. Rocky Mountain National Park . . . — — Map (db m162062) HM
On Fall River Road (U.S. 34), on the left when traveling west.
Elk descend to this meadow and other lowlands when
higher elevations are blanketed by snow in fall, winter,
and spring. Preferring forests by day, elk are most often
seen grazing here at dawn or dusk.
By 1900, elk were hunted out of this area. . . . — — Map (db m164275) HM
Near Moraine Avenue (U.S. 36) 0.8 miles west of State Highway 66, on the left when traveling west.
The Beaver Meadows Visitor Center reflects the legacy of one the world's most creative architects, Frank Lloyd Wright. After Wright's death the firm he founded, Taliesin Architects, designed the building you see before you. Architect Thomas . . . — — Map (db m167993) HM
Over the years, Hidden Valley has been the site of many different kinds of human uses. Each has left its own changes on the face of the land - visible or invisible. Part of the forest was logged, and a sawmill operated here in the late 1800’s. Logs . . . — — Map (db m162486) HM
On South Saint Varain Avenue (State Highway 7), on the right when traveling north.
Father of the Rocky Mountain National Park
internationally known naturalist, author, lecturer and nature guide
Homesteaded on this site in 1885. — — Map (db m78715) HM
On Trail Ridge Road, on the right when traveling west.
Hidden Valley Creek, below, once flowed directly
into Horseshoe Park before its course was
diverted by an Ice Age glacial moraine. Today,
beaver continue to alter the creek's course by
building dams that have created the chain of
ponds visible . . . — — Map (db m164184) HM
On Fall River Road, on the left when traveling west.
What is a “Park?"
In the early 1800s, French-speaking trappers
called broad mountain meadows “parques,'
meaning enclosures. Later, ranchers used these
large, open basins to graze livestock. Today,
Rocky Mountain National . . . — — Map (db m164185) HM
The mountain index on this rock is a memorial to Roger Wolcott Toll Superintendent of Mount Rainer National Park 1919-1921 *** of Rocky Mountain National Park 1921-1928 of Yellowstone National Park 1929-1935 Civil Engineer ** Naturalist . . . — — Map (db m162344) HM
On Fall River Road (U.S. 34) 0.2 miles north of Trail Ridge Road (U.S. 36), on the left when traveling south.
Little Horseshoe Park was the site of the first Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camp west of the Mississippi River. In May 1933, CCC workers set up a base in the meadow below to house about 200 men.
This camp’s laborers became known as the . . . — — Map (db m162063) HM
On Trail Ridge Road, on the right when traveling north.
Drill, blast, then pick up the rubble. Drill, blast, then pick up the rubble. Workers repeated this process off and on for three summers to carve through these gneiss and shist layers and create Rock Cut. Trail Ridge Road, constructed from 1929 to . . . — — Map (db m163425) HM
Near Linden Street, 0.1 miles north of Walnut Street, on the right when traveling north.
Christian Phillipi purchased this property in 1881 and operated his harness business here for many years.
Phillipi was known for making the best harnesses in the region. Because horses were the chief source of power for farm, ranch and . . . — — Map (db m162718) HM
On Mathews Street, on the right when traveling north.
Joseph Antoine Janis was born in St. Charles, Missouri, in 1824. He made a claim on the Cache la Poudre River in 1844, intending to return later to build a home. In the summer of 1859, Antoine Janis, his Oglala wife First Elk Woman and their . . . — — Map (db m105248) HM
This two-story cabin is a classic example of American frontier log construction. Sixty-three year old Elizabeth "Auntie" Stone and her second husband Lewis arrived in this area in 1864. The Army granted them permission to build a private residence . . . — — Map (db m51972) HM
In 1905, the newly remodeled Northern Hotel was opened by a group of local investors. H.L. Daily found success in that venture, and prosperity led him to have this stately family home built in 1906. The house was sold in 1911 to Charles F. Blunck . . . — — Map (db m52243) HM
On Mathews Street, on the right when traveling north.
The building that today houses the Fort Collins Museum was constructed in 1903, as a public library. Steel
magnate Andrew Carnegie provided $12,000 in funds for the construction. Opened to the public on August 24,
1904, the Carnegie Library . . . — — Map (db m51350) HM
Near Isotope Drive near West Drive, in the median.
As a member of the Colorado Agricultural College
faculty between 1883 and 1888, Elwood Mead established
the first instruction in irrigation engineering to be
offered by an American college or university.
This work provided the foundation . . . — — Map (db m52325) HM
This property, part of the original Camp Collins, was purchased by the Mosman family on October 5, 1891. In 1892 prominent architect, Momtezuma Fuller (1858-1925) designed this house, in a distinctive Eastlake Victorian Queen Anne architectural . . . — — Map (db m52324) HM
Near Linden Street at Old Firehouse Alley, on the left when traveling north.
Built in 1878 as a 19.5 x 30' one-story flat-front structure, 233 Linden was one of the earliest brick buildings in Ft. Collins. It was the home of Poudre Valley Bank (later United Bank, Norwest Bank, now Wells Fargo Bank), founded by William Stover . . . — — Map (db m162719) HM
Near North Drive, 0.1 miles east of Meridian Avenue.
This is one of the longest operating weather stations in the western U.S. monitoring temperature, humidity, precipitation (rain, hail and snow), evaporation, winds, solar radiation, clouds, visibility, barometric pressure and soil temperatures. . . . — — Map (db m98539) HM
Since the beginning of irrigated agriculture, it has been important to measure of the flows of irrigation water. Accuracy of early water measurement methods often suffered because of trash or sediment in the water, or unusual flow conditions. . . . — — Map (db m175805) HM
Certificate of Recognition
Let It Be Known to All Persons That
"The William C. Stover House"
at 503 Remington Street
Is Hereby Officially Accepted As A
Local Historic Landmark
June 4, 1996 — — Map (db m103934) HM
Larimer County Veterans Memorial World War I 1917 – 1918 Frank Allen • Edwin Alkire • George Beach • Royal A. Bennett • Glen Bryant • Charles Conrey • Samuel Cook • Glen J. Cowgill • Harry Demantes • Earl Dennis • Lucus Dreith • . . . — — Map (db m222019) WM
Near Bingham Hill Rd, 0.1 miles west of North Overland Trail Rd (County Road 21C), on the right when traveling west.
Lest we forget.
Bingham Hill Historic Cemetery, 1862.
Reserved by John B. Provost and Ben Claymore (aka L.B. Lessert), 1979.
Dedicated in memory of all those known and unknown ever buried here.
Placed by Cache la Poudre . . . — — Map (db m173608) HM
On Overland Trail, 0 miles south of US 287B Highway, on the right when traveling north.
This log house was built by French trader Sam Deon in 1858. Purchased by Civil War Veteran John Wesley Tharp in 1877. From 1877-1937 the home of Eliza Bingham Tharp Gardner. From 1937-1985 the property of Ethel Gardner Ames Holtz. Now belongs to . . . — — Map (db m174426) HM
On Red Feather Lakes Rd (County Road 74E at milepost 16) at Boy Scout Rd (County Road 68C), on the right when traveling south on Red Feather Lakes Rd.
A stage station, post office, and hotel, on the route from Fort Collins, by way of Pingree Hill, to Home, Colorado, in the upper Poudre Canyon.
In memory of Mildred Payson Beatty — — Map (db m173076) HM
On U.S. 287 at County Route 43F, on the right when traveling north on U.S. 287.
Three-quarters of a mile northwest from this point is the original
Virginia Dale
famous stage station on the overland route to California, 1862 - 1867. Established by Joseph A. (Jack) Slade and named for his wife, Virginia. Located on . . . — — Map (db m89595) HM
On U.S. 287 near High Lonesome Road, on the left when traveling north.
What a welcome sight Virginia Dale must have been to nineteenth-century travelers. It was one of the largest stagecoach stations on the Overland Trail, offering hot meals and other conveniences to weary passengers - the equivalent, for its day, of . . . — — Map (db m89639) HM
On East 4th Street, on the right when traveling east.
Downtown Loveland Historic District has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior March 2015
The downtown Loveland historic district encompasses portions of nine square blocks . . . — — Map (db m222002) HM
This property has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior {Supplemental Plaque 1} First United Presbyterian Church Built in 1905-06 Colorado Register of Historic Places . . . — — Map (db m222011) HM
On West Lake Park Road, 0.1 miles east of North Taft Avenue (County Road 17), on the right when traveling east.
Built in 1883 on land donated by B.R. Bonnell to serve families southwest of Loveland. Named for the single Hackberry tree growing nearby.
The school was closed in 1920 and was used as a community center until about 1940, then for grain . . . — — Map (db m89282) HM
On N County Road 19E, on the right when traveling north.
This Memorial Is the
Property Of The State Of Colorado
Namaqua
Home, trading post and fort of
Mariano Modena, early trapper,
scout and pioneer.
First settlement in the
Big Thompson Valley.
Station on Overland . . . — — Map (db m51194) HM
With the faith and courage of their forefathers who made possible the freedom of these
United States the Boy Scouts of America dedicate this replica of The Statue of Liberty as a pledge of everlasting fidelity and loyalty 40th Anniversary . . . — — Map (db m222785) HM
On Trail Ridge Road (U.S. 34) 17.1 miles north of Western Road (County Road 49), on the right when traveling north.
The "great divide" separates drainage to the Atlantic
from drainage to the Pacific. It traverses America from
Alaska almost to Cape Horn.
Atlantic Ocean
«« drainage
Cache La Poudre Creek
drains into the Platte River
which flows to . . . — — Map (db m89106) HM
On Old Fall River Road near Trail Ridge Road (U.S. 34).
To drive along Old Fall River Road is to travel back in time. The slower pace of driving on a winding dirt road recalls a time when traveling in a national park was both challenging and enchanting.
From 1920 to 1932, Fall River Road was the . . . — — Map (db m89121) HM
Near Moraine Avenue, 0.1 miles west of Mills Drive.
He laid the foundation of the National Park Service. Defining and establishing the policies under which its areas shall be developed and conserved unimpaired for future generations. There will never come an end to the good that he has done. — — Map (db m88995) HM
