Forest Camp
Paul Bunyan’s Forest Camp at Turtle Bay is an educational hub modeled after an old-time forest camp similar to ones all over Shasta County a hundred years ago featuring playgrounds, animal exhibits, Mill Building, and much more.
Forest Adventure Playground
Forest Adventure is our forest-themed playground for older children and adults featuring a large tower and climbing wall for a bird’s eye view of the Park.
Babe's Corral Playground
Babe’s Corral is our forest-themed playground attraction for our youngest guests and includes a balance log, ADA-accessible nest swing, log tunnel, Osprey nest with slide, and more.
Mill Building
North State forests and wildlife are the heart of the Mill Building, and visitors delight in viewing the animals and exploring the hands-on exhibits.
Parrot Playhouse
Walk through an interactive aviary featuring lorikeets, Australian birds seen in every color of the rainbow! Enjoy looking at these beautiful parrots and feeding them from your own hand as they land on your arm.
Forest Amphitheater
Home to the Walk on the Wild Side animal show. Seats approximately 400 guests and is equipped with shade sails for summer viewing.
Wings of Summer: Butterflies!
Delight in the delicate flutterings of these beautiful and important pollinators in a tranquil, enclosed garden, open every day during the season. The butterfly house consists of up to 32 species of butterflies found throughout the United States.
Wildlife Woods
Wildlife Woods consists of natural enclosures that serve as homes for many of the animals living full-time at Turtle Bay Exploration Park.
Stimpel Creek
See the mighty Sacramento in miniature as it traces from Mt. Shasta to Turtle Bay. Follow the water as it travels down a lumber flume, change the course of the river, and explore the power of water to run a mill wheel before the stream empties into our tiny Lake Shasta.
Gifford Memorial Picnic Pavilion
The pavilion includes a 1,575 sq. ft. covered structure capable of seating 120 people and can accommodate large school groups and other programing and facility rentals.
Steam Engine
Donated by Sierra Pacific Industries., our 1884 Lima Shay #2 is one of the last of its kind! Ephraim Shay designed this narrow gauge steam engine to haul timber in steep and uneven terrain. The metal components of the log cars came from the LaMoine Lumber Company and are on loan from the US Forest Service.
Elliot Redwood
29,600 pound Redwood log donated by Dennis Elliott and Daughters Logging. When this Redwood was planted in 1850, communication by telegraph was creating a revolution and San Francisco had just received its official incorporation as a city.
Turtle Pond
This turtle habitat is the home to our native western pond turtle, which once flourished in this area, and the invasive red-eared slider, which threatens western pond turtle populations.
Interpretive Forest
Planted by the Forest Museum to demonstrate the importance of trees and forests to our region. It is designed to take you on a journey across the forest ecosystems of Northern California, beginning in the cool, damp, coastal redwood forests near Eureka and ending in the hot, dry, easter pine forests near Susanville.
