Wolf Creek Inn

Wolf Creek Inn is an 1883 stagecoach inn at 100 Front Street, Wolf Creek, Oregon. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1972 as Wolf Creek Tavern; acquired by Oregon State Parks in 1975 and reopened in 1979 as a State Heritage Site. Jack London finished The Valley of the Moon during his 1911 stay; Clark Gable, Carole Lombard, Orson Welles, and Robert Redford have all signed the register.

History

A stagecoach inn that outlived the stagecoach.

Dining

Four rooms in the inn. Four reasons to leave it.

Outdoor

A fire-lookout summit, a wild river, a mountain of trails.

Ghost Stories

Some of the best-documented hauntings in Oregon.

Local Area

A ghost town next door. A wild river to the south. A national monument an hour out.

Family

Gold to pan, falls to splash, a ghost town to walk.

Wedding · Sarah & James

A demo wedding for a demo couple.

Offsite · Pied Piper

Compression. Decentralization. Three nights in Wolf Creek.

Staff Onboarding

Welcome to a 143-year-old, nine-room, occasionally-haunted state heritage site.

Stories

  • Henry Smith's 1883 Bet , He built a stagecoach inn the year before the railroad started laying track.
  • The Stagecoach Years (1883-1887) , Roseburg to Redding, four days by coach.
  • Jack London at Wolf Creek , He finished *The Valley of the Moon* during his 1911 stay.
  • The Hollywood Register , Clark Gable. Carole Lombard. Orson Welles. Robert Redford.
  • Saved by the State , Acquired 1975. Restored four years. Reopened 1979.
  • The Tavern , Original fireplace. Period bar. Where the day winds down.
  • The Dining Room , More formal. Original wood paneling. The Hollywood booth.
  • Breakfast in the Garden Room , Seven AM, sunlight through the original glass.
  • The Bar , Local pours. Stagecoach mirror. Sometimes a stagecoach driver.
  • Taprock Northwest Grill , On the Rogue in Grants Pass. Twenty minutes south.
  • The Twisted Cork , Downtown Grants Pass. Sit-down. Twenty minutes south.
  • Galice Resort Dining , On the Rogue at the rafting put-in. Forty-five minutes.
  • The Lindsay Lodge , An hour south on the Applegate. The new New American.
  • Sexton Mountain Lookout , Just under a mile up. An active fire lookout at the top.
  • Steelhead on the Rogue , Year-round. One of the most consistent fisheries in the West.
  • The Rogue River Trail , Forty miles of canyon, four wilderness lodges.
  • Mountain of the Rogue , BLM mountain bike trails, twenty-five minutes south.
  • Hellgate Canyon , Where the Rogue squeezes through a 250-foot rock wall.
  • How to Stay at a Haunted Hotel , The staff treat the ghosts as colleagues.
  • Room 3 · Jack London , The most-reported ghost in the building.
  • The Singing Daughter , Clark Gable Suite. A young woman. Sometimes she sings.
  • The Stagecoach Driver , Female. Period dress. The tavern.
  • Golden Ghost Town , Four miles east. Four buildings left.
  • Grants Pass , Fifteen miles south. The regional hub.
  • The Applegate Wineries , An AVA most people have not heard of yet.
  • Oregon Caves , Ninety minutes south. A historic NPS lodge above an underground river.
  • Crater Lake , Two hours east. The deepest lake in the United States.
  • A Day at Indian Mary Park , Sixty-one acres on the Rogue. Twenty-five minutes from the inn.
  • Sexton Mountain Walk , Just under a mile up. A working fire lookout at the top.
  • Walk Golden Ghost Town , A general store, a carriage house, a few homes that outlasted the gold.
  • The Applegate Trail Interpretive Center , Five minutes from the inn. The southern alternative to the Oregon Trail.
  • How They Met , A Powell's Books shelf. October 2019.
  • The Proposal , Indian Mary Park. April 2024. He had the book.
  • Their Song , Townes Van Zandt. *If I Needed You*.
  • How Well Do You Know the Couple? , Twelve clues hidden in the inn. One reveal at the rehearsal dinner.
  • A note from Richard , The CEO's welcome to the Pied Piper offsite.
  • Find the Five Values , A scavenger hunt around the inn.
  • Tomorrow Morning · Sexton Mountain , 0700 lobby. We hike before standup.
  • The Compression Theorem · Quotes Wall , Add a line by the end of the offsite.
  • Welcome to Wolf Creek Inn , What this place is, and what makes that different from a hotel.
  • The Building , 1883. Classical Revival. National Register listed in 1972.
  • The Hauntings · Protocol , How to handle a guest who saw something.
  • Service Standards , Nine rooms. Names matter. The ten-foot rule.
  • Local Knowledge , What guests will ask. What you should know.