Gibson Cave
From Oregon Hikers Field Guide
- Hikes to this destination:
- Bald Mountain Loop Hike (TH | <— —> | LOG)
- Weather forecast: NWS/NOAA
- Maps: Oregon Hikers Maps Google Maps
- Latitude, Longitude: 45.16595, -119.31919
- Elevation: 5030 feet
Description
There's an old interpretive panel below the cave which no longer displays information. Native Americans used the rock overhang as a shelter for millennia. Now called Gibson Cave, this overhang was occupied during the Great Depression by a man named Gibson who walled it in, built a door and a window, and furnished it with a wood stove and other comforts. Nothing remains of his presence either; nowadays, you’ll see only the charcoal scratchings of visitors wishing to advertise their vandalism. There’s a hunter’s camp under trees below the cave.
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