Mission 31 · Rocky Mountain National Park, CO

Cascade Cottages

Rocky Mountain National Park

The agency files it as “Adverse Effect Resolution - Cascade Cottages”

Timing

The agency stopped taking comments on September 25. What you find still counts: it backs the formal objections from people who did comment, it goes to the lawyers on the fight, and it is the story.

What to go and check

Go to the Cascade Cottages and photograph the buildings themselves: each cabin front and back, porches, windows, roofs, signs, stonework and chimneys, plus the setting around them. Date every shot.

The decision

Rocky Mountain National Park is notifying the public that a project involving Cascade Cottages will have an adverse effect on historic properties, triggering a formal review process under the National Historic Preservation Act. This means the park has determined that planned actions will harm the historic character or integrity of the Cascade Cottages, a property that likely holds cultural or arch

Read the whole thing, and write to the agency about it

How to record it so it counts

01Don’t touch, move, collect or disturb anything. Ever.
02Photograph what you see from where you stand. Don’t dig, brush away or reposition.
03Don’t post these photographs anywhere. Submit them here only; they go into a sealed record.
04Write down what you saw and, if you know, what it is.

What would count

A photograph in the sealed record, with the location held under the confidentiality the law provides.
Nothing public. The public card will say only that a sensitive observation exists.

All of it, with the phone settings, in the field guide

Are you going?

Say yes or no. It tells the next person whether anyone has this ground covered, and it is the only way we know a request was answered rather than just read. You can change your mind any time, and nobody follows up.

Join, then say you’re going

Nobody has answered yet

Before you go

Public land only. Plenty of land inside a national forest or park boundary is privately owned, and that is not yours to walk on. A gate or a closure sign means stop. Check the rules for the specific place you are going, because they differ.
Don’t touch survey stakes, flagging, equipment or anything a crew left. Photograph it; leave it.
Don’t approach crews, contractors or agency staff about the project. Don’t interfere with any operation.
Wildlife at a distance. No drones in wilderness or anywhere they’re prohibited. Stay off closed roads and trails.
If you’re not sure, don’t. Weather, terrain, water, fire and people are your call, and yours alone.

More Than Just Parks doesn’t direct where you go or what you do. Terms.