Come out for another exciting, fun Revelstoke Timber Days celebration on Saturday and Sunday July 4 and 5 at Centennial Park. This will be our 11th year of hosting a CANLOG sanctioned logging sports show with the thrills and spills of local and professional competitions.

Revelstoke’s history is rich in forestry and we celebrate this during Timber Days. A special treat this year is our partnership with the BC Interior Forestry Museum. On Saturday morning, from 7-9 a.m. the museum will host an Old-Fashioned Loggers Breakfast at the Museum site on Highway 23 North, which is located at the turn-off to the Revelstoke Dam Visitor Centre. Come out and enjoy flapjacks, eggs, sausages, bacon, biscuits and all the fixin’s, with some old-time musical entertainment. During Timber Days, old-time logging practices will be demonstrated by museum volunteers – tie hacking, shake splitting and two-man chainsaws.

Logging sports competitions, with axe throws, hot saws, relays and chopping races are the highlight of Timber Days. On Saturday kids and local men and women compete in fun events. Everyone is welcome to join in the tea boil (starting a fire and boiling water), nail hammering and more traditional axe throw, choker races and power-sawing.

On Sunday provincial and international professional competitors will surprise you with their speed and skills at pole climbing, chopping, crosscut sawing and other events. Eight CANLOG Championships will be awarded on Sunday.

If you’re a cook, bring your tastiest berry concoction to the Park by 11 on Saturday morning for the Berry Bake-off. There’s a free helicopter ride to win! And for kids this is followed by the pie gobble – with great prizes!

New, interactive fun for kids and adults, information displays, music, raffles (including a Revelstoke Mountain Resort adult ski pass and three logging truckloads of firewood), food concessions and the adult refreshment area means there is something for everyone.

We are deeply grateful to the Columbia Basin Trust, the City of Revelstoke and the many businesses who have generously supported us this year so we could go forward when the forest industry is facing very tough times. It’s this support and the amazing efforts of our volunteers that makes this event possible.

We’ll see you there!