Pole Creek Ranger Station

Pole Creek Ranger Station and Ketchum Ski Museum

Blaine County

  • Grants: 2019 – repair interior and exterior chinking and daubing between logs

Location: 43 deg 54’ 39” N 114 deg 44’ 49” W

The Pole Creek Ranger Station is the oldest remaining building in the Sawtooth National Forest. The two-room log cabin was built in 1909 and was actively used by the Forest Service until the 1950s, first as the headquarters for the Sawtooth Valley Ranger District and later as a guard station. The station has been managed by the US Forest Service as an historic site since, aided by the Sawtooth Interpretive and Historical Association. The station is accessible by passenger vehicle in the summer and fall, and by over-snow vehicles the rest of the year, with a short interpretive walking trail leading to the site.

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