Statement of Purpose

Preserve and display information and equipment from Washington State's Timber Industry during the era of Steam Power (1880's through 1940's). Both Logging and Railroading.

Highlights & Collections

1. Camp 6, a registered National Historic Place, is designed after actual logging camps, is reconstructed with equipment and buildings from yesterday's logging camps in Washington State. The exhibits all bear scars of earlier logging days and represent equipment that evolved during that era.

2. Logging Train Ride on the PDQ&K Railroad.

• 1. 8 Steam Powered Logging Machines from 1887 Dolbeer Donkey to 1929 Lidgerwood Tower Skidder weighing over 200 tons.
• 2. Logging Railroad equipment from early Bunk Cars to a 1929 "Pacific Coast" Shay gear driven steam locomotive.
• 3. The Don Olson Collection, a logger's view on canvas.
• 4. "Green Gold Rush" early Washington logging operations recorded on Glass. A Photo exhibit.
• 5. The Donald C. Dietrich Memorial Library, a 1000+ volume referance library of railway and logging books, maps, documents, photographs and artworks.

Exhibits & Special Events

NORTHWEST LOGGING ART EXHIBIT

• April thru September
• A collection of paintings deplicting life in the woods through the eyes of a logger.

LOGGING TRAIN RIDES

• Weekends, April thru September
• 20 minute interpitive train ride through Museum's 14 acre site on ex-logging railroad equipment.

LOGGER'S BREAKFAST

• Labor Day (9am-2pm)
• Old Time Logger's breakfast served up under tents in the woods with a train ride to the "workin' site" afterwards.

SANTA TRAIN

• First three (3) weekends of December (10am-4pm)
• A visit with Santa on the train with cookies and hot cocoa served up in a warm Bunk House after ride.

Hours

Museum:

• WINTER & SPRING: February thru May
• Wed - Sun & Holidays 10am-4pm

• SUMMER: Memorial Day Weekend thru end of September
• Wed - Fri 10am-5pm / Sat, Sun & Holidays 10am-7pm

• FALL: Month of October
• Wed - Sun 10am-4pm

• Indoor Exhibits closed every Monday & Tuesday, also the months of November, December & January.
• Outdoor Exhibits & Museum Grounds are accessable all year round, sun-up to sun-down, as long as Point Defiance Park is open (Extreme weather or winds may close the park).

• SPRING: April & May
• Sat, Sun & Holidays 12noon-4pm

• SUMMER: Memorial Day Weekend thru end of September
• Sat, Sun & Holidays 12noon-6:30pm

Admission & Directions

• Museum Grounds and Exhibits are FREE.(Donations are accepted)
• Logging Train Ride has Fare, Please see Web Site or Phone for current rates.
• The same applies to Logger's Breakfast.
• Santa Train's fare is: Ages 3 to 99 $1.00 all others free.

Interstate 5 North or South to City of Tacoma. Take State Route 16 West in Tacoma to 6th Avenue Exit. Follow off-ramp center lane, it turns left at light. After turn move to far right lane under bridge. Turn right at corner on to Pearl Street. Stay on Pearl St. for about 3.5 miles to it's end. Pearl St. ends at entrance to Point Defiance Park. Enter park and follow signs to "Five Mile Drive" and then "Camp 6 Logging Museum". The Museum is located inside this 700 acre City Park between the Fort Nisqually Historic Site and the Pt. Defiance Zoo & Aquarium on the road that twists through the park. See You There!

Key Personnel

Don Olson, Director

• RICK BACON, SITE MANAGER & EXHIBITS CURATOR
• J.CLARK MCABEE, PHOTO CURATOR
• MARK FRESHWATER, CHIEF MECHINACAL OFFICER