US Forest Service Case Studies
Interlaken Resort, Pike-San Isabel National Forest
The National Trust, in conjunction with Colorado Preservation, Inc. and the Forest Service has for several summers organized a group of volunteers to assist in a hands-on preservation project at the Interlaken Resort in the Pike-San Isabel National Forest near Leadville, Colorado. The resort was established in 1879. Between 1883 and 1890, Leadville miner James V. Dexter commissioned the construction of a sixteen-horse stable, servants' quarters, a dance pavilion, and numerous landscape improvements, transforming Interlaken from a small hotel to one of Colorado's premier mountain resorts of the early twentieth century.
Lake Fannin, Caddo National Grasslands
At the Caddo National Grasslands in Texas, National Trust members and staff participated in several volunteer work days at Lake Fannin Organizational Camp as part of the Forest Service Passport in Time program. Built between 1936 and 1938, the CCC-style camp was the first Resettlement Administration (RA) project of its size in the United States and the only one of its kind in Texas.
