Curry Lookout

  • Also Known As: Camp Regalvista also AHRS Site No. TAL-001

  • Address: Atop Curry Ridge, Mile 137.2, Parks Hwy
  • Travel Genus: Sight
  • Sight Category: Building

Curry Lookout stands atop Curry Ridge at an elevation of 2,559 feet. It is 20 miles northeast of Talkeetna and 2.6 miles west of mile 248.5 of the Alaska Railroad where a depot and hotel named Curry formerly stood. The suspension bridge across the Susitna River to access the ridge from Curry no longer exists. Curry Lookout, now within Denali State Park, can be reached by hiking approximately three miles east from the park's Troublesome Creek trailhead at mile 137.2 of the Parks Highway.

The 140 square foot shelter is a wood framed hexagonal building that stands ten feet tall at its tent roof peak. It has no foundation. Each side is six and a half feet in width with an eave height of approximately eight feet. Five of the six sides are identical. Each has two four-light single sash fixed windows placed side-by-side. The windows define two bays in each elevation. There is a dividing jamb between the two windows that extends above and below the windows. Both the head and sill lines are carried around to all elevations forming belt courses. Each bay has vertical 1x3" tongue and groove siding below the windows and the same siding diagonally placed to form a herringbone pattern above the windows. The sixth side has a single wood door. The door is constructed of vertical 1x3" tongue and groove wood and is braced by wood forming a "Z" pattern on the inside. - NRHP, 19 March 1992


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Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1923/00/00 Alaska Railroad Developer Alaska Railroad built Curry Lookout as a shelter cabin for Curry Hotel (burned 9 April 1957) guest who rode horses or hiked to Curry Ridge

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Particulars for Curry Lookout:
Sight Category Building
Historic Use Camp
Area of Significance Entertainment - Recreation
Criteria Historic Event
Historic Use Outdoor recreation
Owner State



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration: 27th April 1992

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name: Curry Lookout
Registry Address: Atop Curry Ridge, Mile 137.2, Parks Hwy.
Registry Number: 92000424
Resource Type: Building
Owner: State
Architect: The Alaska Railroad
Architectural Style: No style listed
Contributing Buildings: 1
Other Certification: Date received-pending nomination
Certification: Listed in the National Register
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: Local
Area of Significance: Entertainment-recreation
Applicable Criteria: Event
Period of Significance: 1900-1924
Significant Year: 1923
Historic Function: Domestic, Recreation and Culture
Historic Sub-Function: Outdoor recreation, Camp
Current Function: Landscape
Current Sub-Function: Park

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