The Walking Tour

The walking tour around the Coke Ovens Park offers the visitor an opportunity to spend some time walking through the quiet woods discovering the ruins of a once great industrial complex.

Directions: Please click on any highlighted number to see a photo. To return to the same spot you left, use Back Button on your browser. Below this sketch is a reference key.

1. Visitor Register Booth and Mine Car 2. Dunlap Depot Replica 3. Dewayne Dixon Memory Shelter 4. Original site of Company Store 5. Location of Main Rail Line and Donated Caboose 6. Cement Bags - were originally in cloth bags 7. Coke Ovens built in 1916 - these were the last to be constructed 8. Excavated Ovens - through to Amphitheater Stage 9. Gap between Ovens 10. Loading wharf and Railroad Bed 11. East End of Ovens and Loading Wharf 12. Rail recovered from Railroad Bed 13. Amphitheater 14. Firebrick Arch for Oven 15. 1902 Coke Ovens - first to be constructed 16. Tipple and 1906 Coal Washer Ruins

17. 1906 Ovens - excavated 18. Location of Railroad - three tracks 19. Oven Archways on both sides - 1906 20. Firebrick Arch - west end 21. Melted Fire Brick Domes 22.Mine Replica 23. Early Mine Equipment 24. Company Mule Barn location 25. Flower Garden and Flag Pole 26. Cold Springs and Cook Creek 27. Juanita Wooden Donated Shelter 28. Park Restroom 29. Park Entrance Sign 30. Trail to Water Tank Site and Miners' homes 31. Path to Tank Concrete Pad 32. 3900 foot Incline Path to the Top

Sketch by Carson Camp