Bighorn ram on North Inlet Trail at 12,000 feet Photo by George Ulrich flickr used through creative commons license

North Inlet Trail

Rocky Mountain National Park offers many scenic trails for the enrichment of the visitor. The North Inlet Trail, located on the west side of the Rocky Mountain National Park, offers visitors a grand view of lakes, forest and mountains while offering campsites along the way.

Hallet Peak from Lake Haiyaho Trail Photo by Elderhiker via flickr used through creative commons license

Lake Haiyaha Trail

Rocky Mountain National Park offers many scenic trails for the enrichment of the visitor. The North Inlet Trail, located on the west side of the Rocky Mountain National Park, offers visitors a grand view of lakes, forest and mountains while offering campsites along the way.

 

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Publications

Several titles in the National Register of Historic Places bulletin series provide guidance on the identification, evaluation and documentation of a variety of historic landscapes--from parks and parkways to gardens and cemeteries to agricultural districts and institutional campuses--for listing in the National Register.

Historic Residential Suburbs
Designed Historic Landscapes
Rural Historic Landscapes
Historic Battlefields
Historic Cemeteries
Traditional Cultural Properties

Discover Historic Contexts featuring aspects of Landscape Architecture and History such as Historic Park Landscapes in National and State Parks MPS , Modernism in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Design, and Art in Bartholomew County, 1942-1965 MPS, Historic Designed Landscapes of Syracuse MPS and many others by searching the National Register Information System database.

Publications not in the National Register Program:

• Wilderness by Design: Landscape Architecture and the National Park Service
• Rustic Architecture: 1916-1942
• Bryce Canyon National Park: Bryce Canyon Lodge District and Historic National Park Service Housing District
• Presenting Nature: The Historic Landscape Design of the National Park Service
  

National Park Service Program Links:

Virtually visit the Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site, Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historic Park and the associated Conservation Study Institute, and other National Parks with historic Landscape Architecture significance.

Investigate collections of Teaching with Historic Places classroom-ready lesson plans featuring landscape design, urbanization, conservationism, the role of public parks in U.S. history and celebrating National Park Week and Earth Day.

Guidance for making educated decisions and protecting cultural landscapes—both designed landscapes such as gardens and parks to working vernacular historic landscapes such as farms and industrial sites--from the NPS Historic Landscapes Initiative.

Like its sister programs, the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER), the Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS) produces written and graphic records of interest to educators, land managers, and preservation planners documenting the variety of American landscapes.

Parkitecture in Western National Parks

The Park Historic Structures and Cultural Landscapes Programs provide direction and demonstrate high quality preservation practices regarding cultural landscapes—ranging from carriage roads to battlefields, designed gardens to vernacular homesteads, and industrial complexes to summer estates-- in the National Park System.

Through grants and technical assistance, the American Battlefield Protection Program (ABPP) promotes the preservation of historic battlefields associated with wars on American soil.

Skyline Drive: in the Shenandoah National Park

National Organizations:

American Society of Landscape Architects
Alliance Historic Landscape Preservation
Library of American Landscape History
National Association for Olmsted Parks
The Arnold Arboretum at Harvard University
The Garden Conservancy

Previous Landscape Architecture Month features: 2006, 2007, 2008