- City:
- Olga, WA
- Site Type:
- Parks and Recreation, Viewpoints and Overlooks
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
- Quality of Information:
- Moderate
- Marked:
- Unknown
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
Moran State Park was created in 1921 when Robert Moran, shipbuilder and former mayor of Seattle, donated more than 2,700-acres to the state for a park. Like many state parks at the time, it was not well developed for public recreation until the coming of the New Deal.
Most of the trails, roads, bridges, and buildings in the park were built by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) during the 1930s. The CCC typically used native materials on site to construct the many stone and wooden shelters and buildings.
The most notable of the CCC’s structures is the stone observation tower at the top of Mount Constitution, the highest point in the San Juan Islands, built in 1936.
Source notes
Washington State Parks website
Site originally submitted by Charles Swaney on September 11, 2022.
Additional contributions by Richard Walker.
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