Sun Camp Fireguard Cabin, Glacier National Park

#265 among attractions in Glacier National Park

Rustic architecture

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The Sun Camp Fireguard Cabin, also known as the Baring Creek Cabin or Baring Cabin, in Glacier National Park was an example of the National Park Service Rustic style. Built in 1935 by local contractor Harry E. Doverspike, the cabin was the last remaining building of the Sun Camp Ranger Station complex of buildings, which at one time included a ranger station, barn and woodshed located near the mouth of Baring Creek. The fireguard cabin was built according to cabin specifications provided by the NPS Division of Landscape Architecture. The only apparent dissimilarity is the center-wall placement of the entry. There was no indoor plumbing and heat was provided by a wood stove whose stovepipe exited through the back log wall to a stone chimney. ()

Coordinates: 48°41'11"N, 113°35'13"W

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Sun Camp Fireguard Cabin – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Mount Siyeh, Cracker Lake, Rising Sun Auto Camp, Roes Creek Campground Camptender's Cabin.

4.1 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Mount Siyeh, Glacier National Park
105 min walk • Mount Siyeh, with a height of 10,019 feet, is the fifth tallest and one of six peaks over 10,000 feet in Glacier National Park, Montana, United States.
4.6 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Cracker Lake, Glacier National Park
118 min walk • Cracker Lake is located in Glacier National Park, in the U. S. state of Montana. Located at the head of a canyon, the waters of Cracker Lake are an opaque turquoise from rock flour originating from Siyeh Glacier.
3.2 miE
Rustic architecture
Rising Sun Auto Camp, Glacier National Park
82 min walk • The Rising Sun Auto Camp, also known as the Roes Creek Auto Camp, East Glacier Auto Camp or simply Rising Sun preserves a portion of the built-up area of Glacier National Park that documents the second phase of tourist development in the park.
3.1 miE
Rustic architecture
Roes Creek Campground Camptender's Cabin, Glacier National Park
79 min walk • The Roes Creek Campground Camptender's Cabin, also known as the Rising Sun Campground Ranger Cabin, in Glacier National Park is an example of the National Park Service Rustic style.
2.8 miE
Ship
Little Chief, Glacier National Park
73 min walk • Little Chief is a 1926 boat plying Saint Mary Lake, renamed from Rising Wolf in 1990 after a major restoration. It is a 45 feet long boat which is 12 feet wide, made of planked cedar on an oak frame. Its stem and keel are made of fir and it has a steel stem band.
2.2 miN
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Otokomi Lake, Glacier National Park
57 min walk • Otokomi Lake is located in Glacier National Park, in the U. S. state of Montana. Otokomi Lake is in a cirque north of Goat Mountain. The lake is a 5.2 miles hike by trail from the Rising Sun Auto Camp.
3.9 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Cracker, Glacier National Park
101 min walk • Cracker benchmark is located in the Lewis Range, Glacier National Park in the U.S. state of Montana. Cracker is a benchmark summit located on a ridgeline 0.5 miles northeast of Mount Siyeh.
2.9 miS
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Little Chief Mountain, Glacier National Park
74 min walk • Little Chief Mountain is located in the Lewis Range, Glacier National Park in the U.S. state of Montana. Little Chief Mountain is easily seen from the Going-to-the-Sun Road, rising to the south of Saint Mary Lake.
1.9 miE
Sizable lake with abundant wildlife
Saint Mary Lake, Glacier National Park
48 min walk • Saint Mary Lake is the second-largest lake in Glacier National Park, in the U.S. state of Montana. Located on the east side of the park, Going-to-the-Sun Road parallels the lake along its north shore.
2.5 miS
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Mahtotopa Mountain, Glacier National Park
65 min walk • Mahtotopa Mountain is located in the Lewis Range, Glacier National Park in the U.S. state of Montana. Mahtotopa Mountain rises to the south above Saint Mary Lake midway between Red Eagle Mountain and Little Chief Mountain and can be easily seen from the Going-to-the-Sun Road to the southwest of Rising Sun.
2.3 miW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Going-to-the-Sun Mountain, Glacier National Park
58 min walk • Going-to-the-Sun Mountain is a 9,647-foot mountain peak located in Glacier National Park in the U.S. state of Montana. It rises dramatically above St. Mary Valley just north of the Going-to-the-Sun Road. The mountain was named by James Willard Schultz in 1888.