The Autzen Foundation gives $9,000 grant to help restore lodge entrance.

The front “stockade” entrance of Santiam Pass Ski Lodge in the winter of 1946.

For the second year The Autzen Foundation has awarded Friends of Santiam Pass Ski Lodge a restoration grant. This year’s $9,000 grant will be be used for the restoration of the lodge’s distinctive “stockade” entry. The work will make repairs to the surrounding log walls and the large log steps will be replicated to match the original. The original steps suffered deterioration over the years and were removed in the late 1970s. In the early 1980s a vestibule was build on the front of the lodge hiding the stockade entry. This was removed in 2019, and with the help of the Autzen Foundation funding the entry will be brought back to it’s original look. The restoration will also repair or replicate the entry doors according to the original blueprints. Thanks again to the generosity of the Autzen Foundation!

Click HERE to see the work completed on the front entrance!

A group from Bend First Presbyterian Church poses on the lodge steps after a day of woodcutting in the mid-1970s.