The preservation project of the historic Wade and Curtis Cabin on Dinosaur National Monument will give new life to the 100 year old facility. The cabin was first constructed in 1923 in Colorado’s Zenobia Basin before being moved to its current location at the Gates of Lodore in 1933. The cabin has served many uses over the years. Its original use was as a tourist camp but World War II forced the camp owners to give up the site. In the 1950s, National Park Service used it as a patrol cabin and then it was listed on the National Register as a historic place in 1986. The current preservation project is being done by skilled craftspeople from the National Park Service Historic Preservation Training Center. “After the rehabilitation and preservation work is completed this year,” shares the announcement, “new interpretive exhibits will be installed in the cabin in 2024. Beginning in 2025, it will be opened as an interpretive facility to help visitors understand the geology, ecology and history of the Green River and Canyon of Lodore.”
