1 / Exterior Front of the Lodge
Our winter season features a lit tunnel entrance to keep snow from blocking the front entrance. A stone staircase leads you into the mountain-inspired 55k square foot working ski lodge. The lodge’s south-facing front exterior features a carved thunderbird and two rams’ heads. More wildlife design elements are found under the eaves, including bear and buffalo heads. Notice the wooden shingles, large board-and-batten siding and the steeply pitched roof. Above the roofline, the central stone chimney rises from the peak of the head house and is punctuated by arched vents. A 750-pound brass and bronze weather vane at the roof apex is almost 8-feet wide and 29 1/2 – feet tall. It’s a modification of the Wild Goose Moon symbol from the Camp Fire Girls Handbook.
Circular and rectangular window grilles are on either side of the front door. Made of wrought iron, these window grilles are of chevron and arrow design forms. During the summer, you will see flags waving above the front entrance toward the southern line of the cascade mountain range that reaches to Mexico.
- An ADA accessible elevator entrance is located at the east side of the building. Follow the front parking row to the right where another door leads you to an elevator. Follow the signs along the ramped floor to the lower lobby.
- Winter Tunnel, rhiza A+D, 2009
- Exterior wood carving Thunderbird and Native Motifs designs by Howard Gifford, 1937
- Exterior bear and buffalo head wood carving by US Forest service employee, 1960
- Weather vane, brass and bronze, by WPA blacksmiths, 1936-37
- Iron window grilles by WPA blacksmiths, 1937-38.
- Summer flags- Cascadia, Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Community of Oregon, State of Oregon, United States of America, US Forest Service, Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, and Progressive Pride
LOCATION: EXTERIOR FRONT OF BUILDING
STONE- WOOD- IRON