Whisky Creek Cabin, Log cabin near Rogue National Wild and Scenic River, United States
Whisky Creek Cabin is a one-story log cabin with two rooms and an adjacent pantry, front and back porches running the full length of the building on log posts. Its floor is fir planking and its roof is corrugated sheet-metal; the pantry has double walls with sawdust insulation. A tool shed stands behind the cabin and a generator shed a short distance north.
The cabin was built around 1880 by a miner whose name was not recorded, serving initially as a simple shelter with dirt floors. Later residents improved the building step by step with better materials and fixtures.
The cabin represents the mining heritage of Oregon, serving as the last remaining mining structure along the lower Rogue River Trail.
To reach this location, visitors must hike through remote terrain for several hours or travel by water. The route requires good footwear and physical preparation since you walk on forest trails.
Lou Martin, caretaker from 1957 to 1973, built the solar-heated shower between the tool shed and the cabin. He also strung a half-inch steel cable 480 feet across Whisky Creek, tightened with hand-winches and pulleys, to haul firewood.
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