Last updated: October 2, 2023
Place
Summerland Trail Shelter
NPS Photo
Quick Facts
Location:
Summerland Camp along the Wonderland Trail
Season: Summer
The Summerland Trail Shelter is one of the two Civilian Conservation Corps constructed stone masonry trail shelters in the park. It is located on the east side of the park along the Wonderland Trail, accessible from Fryingpan Creek three miles past the White River entrance.
The shelter was designed in 1931, by the NPS Branch of Plans and Design under the supervision of Associate Structural Engineer Edwin A. Nickel. It was constructed in 1934 by the Civilian Conservation Corps as an Emergency Conservation Work project. The supervisory landscape architect overseeing the construction remarked, "The workmen were inexperienced in stone work and the shelter was not too good in appearance, but it was in harmony with its location."
It was one of the numerous trail shelters constructed along the Wonderland Trail, a policy that began under Superintendent Roger W. Toll (1919-20) and expanded during the superintendency of Major O.A. Tomlinson (1923-1941).