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BY TERRY RICHARD | THE OREGONIAN
Mt. Hood's only ski town got a face-lift this summer
with newly paved streets and an improved Skibowl
GOVERNMENT CAMP, Ore. — Be
prepared to look twice when you
pass through Government Camp for
your first winter ski or snowboard
trip of the season.
The sleepy town at the foot of
Mount Hood is on the verge of be
coming chic.
Who would’ve thought?
A beehive of activity during the
summer has given Government
Camp, the village at the 4,000-foot
level on Mount Hood’s south side,
the start of a much-needed facelift.
The construction made the town look
more like Portland’s Pearl or South
Waterfront districts than a place
where village dogs could safely nap
in the middle of the street.
Oh, the town core still has the
same three restaurants it’s had for the
past quarter-century. And the only
new retail shops are ones that have
taken the place of others.
But new amenities should follow
next year as condos continue to sprout
in Mount Hood’s only ski town.
For most of this summer, Govern
ment Camp was the scene of more
construction than at any time since
the building of Timberline Lodge in
the 1930s. Clackamas County’s 10
year tax increment financing plan for
the unincorporated town of 300 year
round residents bore fruit this year by
helping fuel these improvements:
• Collins Lake Resort, an upscale con
do development with units priced
around $275,000, opened its first units
in the center of town late this summer.
While privately owned, many of the
two-bedroom condos will be available
for nightly rental. The first 26 are ready
now, 53 more will come on line this
winter and 123 more next year.
• Mt. Hood Skibowl, stepchild to the
classier Mt. Hood Meadows and Tim
berline ski areas, has covered the
pale blue outside walls of its three
day lodges with cedar siding. The
new rock-and-brick entry at Skibowl
West will have visitors wondering if
they have driven to Colorado without
stopping at Mount Hood.
• The central core of the downtown
loop road has newly paved streets,
brick paver sidewalks and gutters
without curbs. Those improvements
may soon be hidden beneath the
snow, but visitors will surely notice
the $12,000 street lamps and new
welcoming signs. One thing they
won’t notice is utility wires, which
have been placed underground.
• Building facades,
ash-gray brick side
walks and fire-sup
pression sprinklers
have been partially
funded by the coun
ty’s urban renewal
district, so several
building owners took
the bait. The famous
Cascadian-style rock
work, born nearly a
century ago at Crater
Lake and Mount
Rainier national
parks, will be readily
apparent on facades
around town. A good
place to notice is
Huckleberry Inn, the
closest thing to a
town gathering spot.
• A half-dozen resi
dences and smaller
condos are under
construction on the
south side ofU.S. 26,
a short way from the
central core. There’s
even speculation that
a central building lot,
vacated since a 1969
fire, is ripe for devel
opment.
As the new con
dos fill with
overnight guests,
mere win ineviiaDiy
come a need for more restaurants, re
tail stores and entertainment options
beyond skiing. That will be the push
for next year, town boosters predict.
“We’ve seen quite a rush of im
provements,” said Lloyd Musser, cu
rator of the Mount Hood Cultural
Center and Museum. “It used to be
MORE ON MT. HOOD
SKIBOWL WINTER
RESORT
Directions:
Take 1-5 North to 1-205.
Follow North to Clackamas Estscada Exit
(Hwy 212).
Follow Hwy 212 through Damascus and
Boring.
Follow signs to Sandy/ Mt. Hood Mwy 26
East.
Take 26 to Government Camp.
Accommodations
Falcon Crest Inn
(503)-272-3403
www.falconcrest.com
Huckleberry Inn
(503)272-3325
www.huckleberry-inn.com
Mt. Hood Inn
(503)-272-3205
www.mthoodinn.com
Mountain Retreats Vacation Home Rentals
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For more information contact Mt. Hood
Skibowl at 1.800.SKIBOWL or visit it
website atwww.skibowl.com.
that you could walk into the street
and pick up chunks of blacktop. Not
any more. It won’t look like a dust
bowl up here next summer.”
The summer season, when Mount
Hood is the only place with chairlift
siding in North America, has become
a boom time at Government Camp.
Having two busy seasons, with rela
tively short spring and fall shoulder
seasons in between, has helped drive
the town’s residential market.
As a result, an increasing number
of drivers are bound to veer off onto
Government
Camp’s loop road
and explore the vil
lage’s small core.
They will still
find Mount Hood’s
busiest tubing hill at
Summit Ski Area,
the twin mountains
at Skibowl, one gas
station, the brew
pub at the village en
trance and the three
old-time restaurants
in the village core.
Until this winter,
most lodging has
been handled by the
Mount Hood Inn
motel, Huckleberry
Inn lodge, Falcon’s
Crest Inn bed and
breakfast, plus
an assortment of va
cation rentals and
condos available
through property
managers.
In the past, most
winter visitors to
Mount Hood spent
their time downhill
skiing at Timberline
and Meadows, or
cross-country ski
ing, snowshoeing
and snowmobiling
in the surrounding forest. When they
headed home to the Portland area,
they passed Government Camp with
out a second glance.
That scenario should change this
winter, if only for the curious who
want to see how well the brick-paver
sidewalks survive their first winter of
battle with the state snow plows.
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