Summit Stage Station Camp

La Pine Camp, Summit Camp and Chemult Camp were also know as the town of Shevlin. It was a traveling logging town owned by the Shevlin - Hixon Company. The Town moved three times in eighteen years.

This Summit loaction is the most documented of all the camps. It came into existence after Lapine Camp and lasted from 1942 - 1947 before being moved to the Chemult Camp loaction. The town was divided into two sections. The family housing section to the west was ploted into lots.Cabins were brought in by railroad cars, then crained into place and connected to a community water system. The section ot the east had multiple rail spurs that held railcars with bunkhouses for the single men, company offices, work shops and a variety of services and amenities. 

There's a lot to see atf Summit Camp today if you look for it. It's a great place to wonder around and explore.Some of the debris pits have be tagged that have historic artifacts. Please be repectful and leave the areas undistrubed.. 

The cache is located near a clearing after a short walk throught the camp.Coordinates are loacted in the cache for a bonus cache called "Waiting on a Train". The bonus will take you to the town of Shevlin.Along the way you can notice the elevation changes where the spurs were cut through the landscape leading to the cache. A reservior has been build since the existance of the town severing several of spurs in two.  

Happy caching! 

Information collected for the creation of this cache.

Shevlin was Oregon’s own wandering timber town

http://offbeatoregon.com/1308d-shevlin-oregons-wandering-timber-town.html

Life in railroad logging camps of the Shevlin-Hixon Company, 1916-1950

https://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/concern/graduate_thesis_or_dissertations/9c67wq00g

Shevlin-Hixon Lumber Company

http://www.trainweb.org/highdesertrails/shlco.html