Sunset Lodge

The route of the Sunset highway followed the old wagon road along the eastern bank of lake Keechelus. This section of the highway has been improved many times over the 100 years. Today (2016) the state is still blasting rock to widen the freeway along the lake.

Near the southern end of the lake was the Sunset Lodge. In the early days the lodge was a social gathering place. There was a hotel, cottages, tent camping, and other modern amenities including a ski slope. The Sunset Lodge was also a stage stop along the Sunset Highway complete with a telegraph. The lodge generated their own hydro power.

The lodge burned down in 1928, and was quickly rebuilt and the new lodge lasted until the interstate wiped it out in 1956.