SIGNS: Production of the original entrance sign coincides with
Lange's rustic sign program at Crater Lake in 1936. Using CCC labor,
rough hewn wood signs with raised lettering and carved images were
created. The existing sign is an amalgam of the original 1935 sign of
oil-impregnated wood with routed yellow-orange painted lettering on a
brown background, glued to a 1937 NPS rustic sign with raised lettering.
The sign standard (post) is a 1962 replacement of the original bold-cut
log form. Other signs at Oregon Caves, including directional,
identification, and interpretive, were produced at the Crater Lake sign
shop. Records indicate that some signs may have been produced at the
sign shop in Yosemite. [20] Signs at Oregon
Caves were replaced with routed wood signs of creme white lettering and
brown background as part of the Mission 66 landscape improvement
program. Today, there are few extant Mission 66 signs, as well as a few
stencil signs produced by the concessioner in the 1970s. Other markers
on site include the marble Elijah Davidson Monument. Erected in the
early 1930s, the monument rests on a mortared stone base at the east
side of the main cave entrance.

Entrance sign on SR46 west of the lower
parking lot.
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View northwest of the information kiosk
adjacent to the NPS Administration Office at the lower parking
lot.

Elijah Davidson stone memorial inset
into the masonary wall east of the cave entrance.
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