From the early days of Steel, Steam and Timber on the West Coast, loggers lived in logging camps from the snow melt in spring to the first snows of winter. Entertainment in camp was limited. Possibly a guitar or juice harp, but more often tall tales loggers would spin.

Who fell the largest tree, who had the sharpest axe…. Who was the “King of the Woods?”

This gave way to who could stick an axe closest to the knot in the cedar tree by the cookhouse, or who could split firewood the cleanest and quickest.

On rare occasions when loggers came to town, such as the 4th of July or another celebration, these lumberjacks would celebrate as they knew how, competing with one another. These celebrations of the early 1900s have evolved to the logging competition we enjoy today. The equipment has changed, but the logger is the same today as a quarter century ago, wondering among themselves, ‘Who is the best?’

Roaring Camp and Big Trees Railroad is proud to invite you to the celebration of the logging industry then and now with the first annual ‘Lumberjack Days’

Loggers competing in various aspects of man against time and logs to claim the title of ‘King or Queen of the Woods’