This was part of the Great Northern Railway's broader development of the park as a tourist destination.

The bunkhouse is the last surviving structure of this era at this location, near the southern end of Waterton Lake.

Its design has been attributed to National Park Service landscape architect Thomas Chalmers Vint.

[2] The site is at the southern end of Waterton Lake, near the modern Goat Haunt Ranger Station.

International, a small passenger launch that plied the route between the American and Canadian ends of Waterton Lake.