Camp Silver Creek Dining Hall, OR 2019

Project Site Description & History
PROJECT PARTNER: Oregon State Parks
SESSION DATES: April 7-12 | April 14-21 | April 23-28
LOCATION: We stayed in traditional summer camp cabins in the YMCA Camp Silver Creek!
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Project Site Description & History
“All summer, from the early-morning Polar Bear Club to campfire, campers are engaged in activities that are fun, challenging, and memorable. For decades, Camp Silver Creek has been shaping the lives of campers through the offering of traditional camp programs that build a healthy body, mind and spirit!”
See the camp from a birds-eye view in this video, also from the YMCA. Learn more here.
Scope of Work
Volunteers worked alongside expert field staff to learn the following skills. This project’s crew worked together to preserve the camp’s historic dining hall, so it can continue to serve as the base of operations for peanut-butter-and-jelly assemblage for campers for generations to come.
- Replace deteriorated doors: 15%
- Rehabilitate window sashes and frames: 25%
- Replace and repair wooden porch posts and railings: 15%
- Repoint and level porch flagstone: 25%
- Replace wall shakes: 20%

Photograph taken by Elizabeth Carter in 2000

Detail of Camp Silver Creek Dining Hall exterior today

One of the state park’s falls that give it its name

Silver Falls State Park pond at Camp Silver Creek