Day 210: I have no story to tell about this water tower. I know nothing of its history other than that it once served visitors staying at Sunshine Point Campground. The campground was destroyed by the flood of 2006; was the tower used until then? I don't know.
Sometimes, penetrating deep mysteries destroys their magic. While I entertain a certain degree of curiosity about the tower, I suspect that the romance of its presence might suffer if I delved into its backstory. Without the dry facts, I can imagine that it was built by CCC crews in the 30s, the same workmen who were responsible for a lot of trail and road construction in the Park. The hoop-and-stave architecture is certainly consistent with the period. The pumphouse behind it looks newer, perhaps put in to augment the insufficiency of gravity-feed as visitor usage increased. The tower raises questions in my mind every time I visit this corner of the forest, but its imagined saga is so much more colourful than any details I might unearth if I were to go asking that I am not compelled to do so. I am not inclined to obfuscate my faith in its record with hard and provable truths.
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