Mount Baker: America’s New Playground

Mount Baker National Forest was carved out of the Washington National Forest in 1924, and in 1927 local developers built a grand lodge that could fairly be compared with Old Faithful Inn or Glacier Park Lodge. Northern Pacific took advantage of these events by publishing this eight-panel brochure, seven of which are full-page or half-page photos. Two of the photos show the “new” lodge in all the glory that could be displayed in black-and-white.

Click image to download a 4.9-MB PDF of this brochure.

Unfortunately, as previously noted here, the lodge burned to the ground in August of 1931. But this enables us to date this booklet to sometime between 1927 and 1931. Unlike yesterday’s, this one doesn’t advertise an “All-Pullman North Coast Limited,” so it is probably from 1930 or 1931.


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