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Lodging for Destination Travelers
Spend some time on the mountain! Lodges, cabins, campsites, hotels and more are available. Sorry, lodging is not available at the cabins for students. Luckily, this area has been a destination for thousands of years (Yes, that’s right! Thousands!) so please follow the link- https://www.mthoodterritory.com/places-to-stay — to find a place to stay! CCAC is located in Government Camp, Oregon of the Mt Hood National Forest. Travel is scenic and full of adventure for an art trip to Oregon. Portland International Airport PDX is about an hour away. The Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area is a must see and adds a great “loop” around our mountain. Enjoy!
Former Forest Service buildings now “Arts Cabins” makers space
Revamped as “Arts Cabins” and makers’ space under a special-use permit with the US Forest Service, the CCAC studios host classes May through September. Please note: The CCAC Raven studio, Trillium studio and Blacksmith Shop are not open to the general public, with exception of the Blacksmith Shop during our August Blacksmith Week. Class participants, operations staff and instructors are scheduled on a pre-registration basis. Look for our Open Studio events on the calendar soon where everyone is welcome to experience our humble studio offerings.
At the South Summit Blacksmith Shop location, we now have four double forges for teaching the craft of blacksmithing and metal arts.
The Raven Studio was built in 1960 and originally used as a personal residence for higher ranking Forest Service personnel. Its basement now serves as a glass studio. The cabin also has main floor space for Jewelry-Arts (non-torch), Textiles-Fibers Arts, Visual Arts, Writing and other art-specific art gatherings.
The Trillium Studio (Raven’s twin) serves as an ideal space for printmaking, jewelry making, textiles/fibers arts and other hand crafts.
This is the ultimate ‘recycling’ of government buildings for use by the public, to be shared for generations.
Location
Cascadia Center for Arts & Crafts (CCAC) is a collection of US Forest Service cabins set in the Village of Government Camp, Oregon. A.k.a. “Govy,” is centrally located in the middle of some of the most accessible and beautiful scenery in the Pacific Northwest. The area’s ancestral tribal boundaries include The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde and The Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs of Oregon.
Ravens studio “upper cabin” is located at 30700 Rd 530 FS1104, Government Camp, Oregon 97028. Trillium studio “lower cabin” is 30800 Rd 530 FS1071, Government Camp, Oregon 97028. Summit Blacksmith Shop is located on the south side of US-Hwy26 just across from the Government Camp Rest Area near Milepost 54, FS1511 South Summit Compound, Government Camp, Oregon 97028.
Bus service is available to Government Camp from Portland, Gresham and Sandy, or Hoodland area 7-days a week. http://www.mthoodexpress.com/
Timberline Lodge and ski area is just 6-miles up Timberline Road from CCAC’s Ravens/Trillium studios and Blacksmith shop. This National Landmark Historic Building was constructed in 1937 and remains an everyday working ski lodge where lifts typically run through Labor Day. You’ll find majestic views of the mountain, as well as the celebrated WPA-era arts and crafts of the lodge.
Cabins History
Many years ago, slightly East of The Village of Government Camp was the site for the Mt. Hood National Forest Summit District Ranger Station, elevation approx 4,000 ft. On a small crest between Still Creek and Camp Creek is the ‘Summit Campus’ located in the Historic Summit Ranger Station– also known as the Summit Compound, and the Summit Guard Station. The site is directly next to the Barlow Road section of The Oregon Trail. The road primarily followed original native trials across the Cascades and was first cleared and used in 1845. A trace of that road is still used as a popular hiking, Mountain biking and cross country ski trail. Forest Service administrative functions located at Summit Meadow were relocated to this area in the 1930’s to be on the Mt. Hood Loop Highway and near the Timberline Road construction in 1930.
Construction began in 1936 and the Mt Hood Forest Supervisor offered the largest residence in the newly constructed Summit Station to Tim Turner, Forest Service supervising architect on the Timberline Lodge project.
We’d love to hear from you:
Cascadia Center for Arts & Crafts
P.O. Box 75
Rhododendron, Oregon 97049
(physical addresses are located in Government Camp, Oregon)
emails: info@cascadiaart.org, cascadiacenterartscrafts@gmail.com (we use the gmail address for correspondence from both emails)
Board of Directors:
Lisa Riversong, Cal Bertram, Noelle Newton, Darryl Nelson, Kate Yakuschev, Joe Elliott, Heather Higgins
