Illahee Flats CCC Camp - Umpqua National Forest OR

City:: Umpqua National Forest, OR
Site Type:: CCC Camps, Federal Facilities
New Deal Agencies:: Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), Work Relief Programs
Quality of Information:: Moderate
Marked:: No
Site Survival:: No Longer Extant

Description

The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) had a camp at Illahee Flats, in the North Umpqua River Valley in Oregon. We do not know the exact years the camp was active, but enrollees from this camp almost certainly built the wooden Illahee lookout tower eight miles farther up FS-4760.

The gazebo across the road from Illahee Flats is not CCC; it was built in 1928, burned in 1997 and rebuilt by the US Forest Service, along with a restroom and picnic tables.

The main part of Illahee Flats is empty meadow. There is no obvious trace of the CCC camp left nor of a Guard Station mentioned in one source.

Source notes

Rogue-Umpqua National Scenic Byway, Oregon. Tourist pamphlet created by Roseburg regional offices of the Bureau of Land Management and US Forest Service, with the Roseburg Visitors and Convention Bureau, no date. p. 9. https://www.blm.gov/or/districts/roseburg/recreation/ScenicByway/pdf/rogue-umpqua-byway-brochure.pdf

Site originally submitted by Joan Greer on June 6, 2022.