CCC Camp at St. Regis

One afternoon in July 1933, a heavy truck could not turn around on a narrow forest road; to solve the problem, several “husky lads put their shoulders to the truck and lifted the chassis and set it down again in ...

Klamath Falls

In an attempt to promote preservation of the reserve the Mazamas, William Gladstone Steel, “The Father of Crater Lake,” held a summer outing and mountain-climbing excursion at Crater Lake in August 1896. The trip had the nature of a scientific ...

Crater Lake Lodge

Crater Lake Lodge was renovated in the 1990s but first opened in 1915. Located here is the Great Hall and history exhibits.

Crater Lake Lodge was built to encourage tourism to Crater Lake National Park and southwestern Oregon. It opened to ...

Watchman Overlook

Rising some 763 feet above the water, Wizard Island is an excellent example of the smallest type of volcanic cone. The summit of this perfect little cone is a crater about 90 feet deep and 300 feet in diameter. The ...

White River Wilderness Information Center

Mount Rainier National Park maintains active relations with six Indian tribes located in its vicinity: the Nisqually, Puyallup, Squaxin Island, Muckleshoot, Yakama, and Cowlitz. All but the Cowlitz trace their modern tribal identity to one or more of three treaties ...

Sidney Yates Building (Auditors Building Complex)

The structure now known as the Sydney Yates Building began its life as the Auditors Building Complex and was originally home to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Established in 1861, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing quickly outgrew its ...

Goat Haunt Ranger Station

The rangers that served the park in the early days were men who brought many outdoor skills to the job. Some, like Dan Doody and Chance Beebee, were local homesteaders in need of regular employment. Some, like Norton Pearly, were ...

Civilian Conservation Corps Garages

The Civilian Conservation Corps equipment sheds and the associated boulevard lie on both sides of the wide median in the maintenance yard. Construction of the sheds began in 1941. The sheds were originally built to store the heavy equipment used ...

Administration building

William Logan, Glacier National Park’s first superintendent hired in 1910, focused his initial construction projects on the creation of a park administrative center and on a system of roads and trails. In late 1910, soon after the area was converted ...

Atlyn Peak

In 1900, Coincident with and mainly due to the development of the Cracker Lake Mine, a small boom town sprang up at the mouth of Canyon Creek near the head of Sherburne Lake. This town, named Altyn, after Dave Greenwood ...