Government Camp is an unincorporated community and census-designated place located in Clackamas County, Oregon, United States, on the base of Mount Hood and north of Tom Dick and Harry Mountain. It is
Center of business district in Government Camp
Battle Axe Inn at Government Camp, 1927
Post office at Government Camp with a sign describing its naming
Timberline Lodge is a mountain lodge on the south side of Mount Hood in Clackamas County, Oregon, United States, about 60 miles east of Portland. Constructed from 1936 to 1938 by the Works Progress Ad
Government Camp, Oregon
…km) of Mount Hood and therefore is the de facto "mountain town" or "ski town". It is the gateway to several ski resorts, with the most popular being Timberline Lodge and Mount Hood Skibowl. Government Camp also has its own, smaller ski resort, Summit Pass. The community is located within the Mount Hood Corridor on…
Timberline Lodge in Summer 2006
Bronze "snow goose" weather vane above the head house
Purchased for $2.10 each, discarded cedar utility poles were repurposed as newel posts—19 of them crowned with carvings of area wildlife.
WPA workers lived in a nearby tent city while building Timberline Lodge (1936).