Experience Oregon’s Logging History, and EAT BREAKFAST WITH LUMBERJACKS.
The sprawling old-timee log cabin, with hand-carved old-growth fir front doors, and a dining table made from old-growth tree stumps, of Camp 18 Restaurant and Logging Museum is coming up.
It isn’t just an iconic sight along Highway 26, it’s an Oregon institution. It's beloved for its hulking cinnamon rolls, and the uniquely Beaver State experience it offers, inside and out.
Even before you head inside, Camp 18’s charms are apparent: A restored water tower lords over logging-equipment displays that date back decades; the lineup includes historic tools, tractors and more. And across the parking lot sits the Camp 18 Loggers Memorial, which pays tribute to the workers who made logging their life’s work. It's all chainsaw-sculpture garden, the life's work of lumberman Gordon Smith, all folded deep within the Tillamook Forest.
Walking inside, meanwhile, feels akin to entering the world’s most audacious mountain retreat — with a sprawling log-cabin interior, crackling stone fireplace and chain-saw carvings all coming together to create a cozy dining experience.
Make sure you go in hungry. Camp 18 serves filling breakfast, lunch and dinner dishes, with a menu that reads like a veritable bingo card of comfort-food classics: country-fried steak with homemade gravy, filling omelets, towering sandwiches and more. Whatever you do, save room for a homemade cinnamon roll the size of catcher's mitts ($7), which are large enough to feed a whole family of hungry loggers. Served with churned butter.
Once you’ve eaten (and boxed up your leftovers for the road), you’re just 25 minutes from Seaside — and are that much closer to catching the weekend’s first sunset.
(open Sunday through Thursday 8AM to 7PM and Friday and Saturday 8AM to 8PM)
Website
The sprawling old-timee log cabin, with hand-carved old-growth fir front doors, and a dining table made from old-growth tree stumps, of Camp 18 Restaurant and Logging Museum is coming up.
It isn’t just an iconic sight along Highway 26, it’s an Oregon institution. It's beloved for its hulking cinnamon rolls, and the uniquely Beaver State experience it offers, inside and out.
Even before you head inside, Camp 18’s charms are apparent: A restored water tower lords over logging-equipment displays that date back decades; the lineup includes historic tools, tractors and more. And across the parking lot sits the Camp 18 Loggers Memorial, which pays tribute to the workers who made logging their life’s work. It's all chainsaw-sculpture garden, the life's work of lumberman Gordon Smith, all folded deep within the Tillamook Forest.
Walking inside, meanwhile, feels akin to entering the world’s most audacious mountain retreat — with a sprawling log-cabin interior, crackling stone fireplace and chain-saw carvings all coming together to create a cozy dining experience.
Make sure you go in hungry. Camp 18 serves filling breakfast, lunch and dinner dishes, with a menu that reads like a veritable bingo card of comfort-food classics: country-fried steak with homemade gravy, filling omelets, towering sandwiches and more. Whatever you do, save room for a homemade cinnamon roll the size of catcher's mitts ($7), which are large enough to feed a whole family of hungry loggers. Served with churned butter.
Once you’ve eaten (and boxed up your leftovers for the road), you’re just 25 minutes from Seaside — and are that much closer to catching the weekend’s first sunset.
(open Sunday through Thursday 8AM to 7PM and Friday and Saturday 8AM to 8PM)
Website
