North Fork Road

The North Fork Road in Glacier National Park was built in 1901. The Butte Oil Company constructed a rough wagon road from Lake McDonald to its oil well at Kintla Lake, encouraging the development of the North Fork region. From 1935–1945, the National Park Service developed the road adding culverts and drains. The unpaved road extends nearly forty miles, almost to the Canada–United States border.[2]

North Fork Road
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	North Fork drainage, Fish Creek to Kintla Lake, Glacier NP, West Glacier, Montana
Coordinates	48°32′53″N 113°59′11″W
Architect	NPS Landscape Division
MPS	Glacier National Park MPS
NRHP reference No.	95001572
Added to NRHP	January 19, 1996[1]

In 1933 a proposal was advanced to extend the road to Canada to connect with a proposed road on the Canadian side of the border that would create a loop around Glacier and Waterton Lakes National Park. No further action was taken, and by the 1950s the plan had been abandoned.[3]

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
2. "North Fork Truck Trail". List of Classified Structures. National Park Service. 2008-11-14.
3. Ann Hubber (June 1995). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: North Fork Road" (pdf). National Park Service. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)