LIBBY CAMPS

When the historic Atkins Camps were founded in 1890, and twenty years before Ike, Will, and their father C.C. purchased them and founded Libby Camps, the world was a vastly different place. 1890 was the year Yosemite was designated as a National Park, and the same year Wyoming and Idaho were admitted as 43rd and 44th states. It was one year before Carnegie Hall opened in New York City, and two years before Ellis Island started accepting and processing immigrants. It was three years still before the extravagant Chicago World's Fair, where the masses were introduced to the marvel of electric light. And it was four years before congress designated Labor Day as an official holiday, five years before the first U.S. Open Golf Tournament, and six long years before the last North American Gold Rush in the Yukon Territories. Like we said, the world was a vastly different place when the first pages of our story were written... Back then when our guests left their homes to venture north and..

Primary location: Ashland United States