Beaver Meadows Visitor Center
Beaver Meadows Visitor Center is the first visitor center that people entering Rocky Mountain National Park from the East Entrance encounter. Beaver Meadows welcomes large amounts of visitors every year, and has remained an important information site. This visitor center was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2001 as the first visitor center in the Mission 66 style. It was nominated before the 50-year mark, highlighting it's exceptional status as an extremely significant historic landmark.
In choosing the location of the new visitor center, Taliesin architects and designers worked with Rocky Mountain National Park superintendents and other park officials to make the landmark building of Beaver Meadows a reality.
This chapter follows the establishment of Beaver Meadows Visitor Center with a special focus on the Dedication Ceremony that took place on June 24, 1967 and the lasting legacy of the visitor center in Rocky Mountain National Park today.
