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Virtual Guidebook to Mount Shasta and the Klamath-Trinity Mountains
McCloud
Siskiyou County California
McCloud is a classic company town, centered around a huge lumber mill (now closed). It had full services provided by the lumber company, with stores and health care, several hotels, a bank and a railroad station. The mill is closed, and may become a bottled water warehouse. The town has been privatised. The train stills runs for scenic excursions and dinners.
The housing in McCloud includes a mansion that hosted presidents for the company owner, large houses for the managers, and smaller houses for married employees. Houses were graded by size and standing in the company, with all buildings on each block usually identical, plus bunkhouses/hotels for unmarried workers. The town is still fully inhabited and well maintained.
 | The lumber company guest house, now a bed and breakfast hotel (August 3, 2006) | |
 | The McCloud Hotel (August 3, 2006) | |
 | The McCloud River Inn (August 3, 2006) | |
 | Site of the railroad depot in the center of McCloud, now used by the dinner train (August 3, 2006) | |
 | The McCloud Mercantile, formerly the company store (August 3, 2006) | |
 | On the street behind the McCloud Museum (August 3, 2006) | |
 | Locomotive and passenger cars on the McCloud Railway (August 3, 2006) | |
 | A snowplow locomotive along with other rolling stock at the McCloud rail yard (August 3, 2006) | |
 | Hoo Hoo Park near the old mill in McCloud (August 3, 2006) | |
 | Minnesota Avenue, originally identical company houses (August 3, 2006) | |