Visit Apex Logging Camp Site, Arizona

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From 1928 to 1936, Apex Logging Camp served as the headquarters for the Saginaw and Manistee Lumber Company. Remnants, such as the foundation of a one-room school house constructed from converted box cars, can still be seen today. It's located within the southern area of Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni – Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument. The Apex Logging Camp contains evidence of the timber industry in the 1930s and is the focus of ongoing research at an archaeological field school. Located on the top of the steepest grade on the Grand Canyon Railroad line, the town of Apex provided wood that was used to build the railroad, timber the mines, and construct the resorts along the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. Men without families would typically live in camps moving with the cutting activity, while families lived in a community at Apex station. The settlement had its own school and telephone service. Many of the workers and their families were from Sweden and Norway. The school at Apex, along with the neighboring one at the mining town of Anita, were at one time the only racially integrated schools in Arizona.

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