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Snowy Range Lodge

Historic house in Wyoming, United States

United States historic place


Libby Lodge
U.S. National Register of Historic Places


41°19′20″N 106°10′19″W / 41.32222°N 106.17194°W / 41.32222; -106.17194
Built	1925
NRHP reference No.	76001947
Added to NRHP	September 30, 1976^[1]^{[failed verification]}

The Snowy Range Lodge, formerly known as the Libby Lodge, is located in the Snowy Range of Medicine Bow National Forest in Wyoming. The three-story log lodge was built in 1925 as the Libby Lodge. From 1925 to the mid-1970s, the Lodge served as a classic mountain lodge, sleeping up to 75 people in the main lodge and in ten cabins on 40 acres leased from the US Forest Service. In the mid-1970s, it fell into a state of abandonment, neglect, and disrepair such that the Forest Service planned to burn and bulldoze it as it presented a liability risk to National Forest users who might venture inside.^[2]

The Lodge was purchased and rehabilitated by a local family and currently serves as a private residence, and private hire for events (not accommodation).^[3]

References

^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
^ Junge, Mark (April 1976). "National Register of HIstoric Places Inventory - Nomination Form: Libby Lodge". National Park Service.
^ "Snowy Range Lodge". National Register of Historic Places. Wyoming State Preservation Office. October 26, 2008.