Sucker Creek Trail Shelter, Siskiyou National Forest (Cave Junction, Oregon)
- Title
- Sucker Creek Trail Shelter, Siskiyou National Forest (Cave Junction, Oregon)
- LC Subject
- Architecture, American Architecture--United States
- Description
- This image is included in Building Oregon: Architecture of Oregon and the Pacific Northwest, a digital collection which provides documentation about the architectural heritage of the Pacific Northwest. Summary Sheet. Forest Service Evaluation of Cultural Resources. 1993
- Temporal
- 1930-1939
- Style Period
- Rustic (European style)
- Work Type
- architecture (object genre) built works shelters (single built works) views (visual works) exterior views documentation (activity)
- Location
- Josephine County >> Oregon >> United States Oregon >> United States United States Cave Junction >> Josephine County >> Oregon >> United States
- Date
- 1933
- View Date
- 1993
- Identifier
- pna_99999
- Rights
- In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted
- Source
- Oregon State Historic Preservation Office, http://www.oregon.gov/OPRD/HCD/SHPO/
- Type
- Image
- Format
- application/pdf
- Material
- Wood; Shingles
- Set
- Building Oregon
- Primary Set
- Building Oregon
- Institution
- University of Oregon
- Note
- The Shelter is a pitched-roof, single-room bunkhouse made of poles, hand-hewn beams dnd covered by hand-split cedar shakes. There are no windows and the floor is earthen. The back iekeide wall of the three-sided cabin has a plank platform for sleeping. The Shelter is a square one measuring 14-feet 3-inches in both length and width; the roof peak is over 12-feet from the ground level. The open side of the Shelter faces south and 20-feet west of the Shelter opening is a wood water trough made out of a log. Inside the entrance on the east wall is a suspendea wood shelf. The Shelter sits on the upper end of a large meaeow that is flat on the upper end and a gradual slope at the bottom. Site elevation is around 4,500 feet above sea level. hear the Shelter is a stand of old-growth red cedar. The understory consists of dense natural grasses. The Shelter appeers to have been constructed using all local material, as logged stumps are visible in the vicinity. A small spring provides water for the Shelter and grazing animals.
