building area

1,500 sf

Owner

National Park Service

This 22-fixture comfort station was designed to replace the existing 4-fixture facility which was inadequate to meet the needs of the ten thousand visitors per day during peak season.

The 1,500 sf replacement facility is carefully sited among mature trees near a prime picnic area and trailhead.  Amenities include separate family restrooms, boot wash stations, a free standing frost-free drinking fountain, interpretive panels, skylights, and the ability to close half of the facility during winter. Due to National Park Service requirements for sprinklers, a new water service was designed to be sensitively rock-trenched to the site.

The exterior materials, patterns and colors of the comfort station are in keeping with the other recent developments throughout the park, which are modern reinterpretations of Gilbert Stanley Underwood’s 1925 rustic lodge.