Baker Ranger Station

Baker Ranger Station, at the edge of Baker, Nevada, was established in 1911 on the Baker Administrative Site to oversee U.S. government lands in the surrounding area and became a year-round station for the Baker Ranger District in 1918. Its original four-room building was later replaced by the surviving 1930s compound: a cottage, office, barn, and combined garage and fire cache built to standard U.S. Forest Service plans. Local relief workers and Civilian Conservation Corps labor helped construct the site. After the 1957 division of Nevada National Forest, it served as a guard station and work site, and in 1986 it became a National Park Service administrative center for Great Basin National Park.

Baker, Nevada · United States