The Forest Learning Center

http://www.weyerhaeuser.com/Sustainability/MountStHelens/Visiting

The Charles W. Bingham Forest Learning Center is located inside the blast zone and contains exhibits about the destruction and recovery of the forest. It is a partnership between Weyerhaeuser Company, Washington State Department of Transportation and the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation. Mid-May to October.

About 20 miles from the Castle Rock interchange along WA 504

St Helens visitor centers

Photo by James Maynard © 2010 - free use with attribution

forest learning center location

Locations of visitor centers along WA rte 504Weyerhauser Camp12

Destruction at a Weyerhauser logging camp by lahars generated by the 1980 eruption.

railroad wheels

Railroad wheels embedded in lahar deposits at the former site of Weyerhauser camp 12 along the South Fork Toutle River. Photo by James Maynard © 2010 - free use with attribution [click for larger image]