What we know
Museum of wood carving south of Monument: incorporated in 1969, it showed more than 7,000 carvings on 11 acres, with 20-foot totem poles marking the turnoffs, and its monthly The Mallet went to 3,200 members. The Tribune of April 26, 1990 reported it 'probably closed for good' after 15 years open, under bonds and loans it could not carry (Rob Carrigan, Colorado Restless Native, 2014, S-0001). A PPLD catalog note says it closed in 2011 (S-0218); whether it reopened after 1990 is not known.
Where it was
14960 Woodcarver Road, the address in PPLD's 1982 photograph record (S-0218), via the El Paso County address locator (2026-10-17). Good to the parcel. Carrigan's 'field at the corner of Baptist Road' fits.
Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note.
Sources
- S-0001: Colorado Restless Native (blog)
- S-0017: Pikes Peak Library District, Regional History & Genealogy
- S-0034: Rob Carrigan's history posts on Colorado Restless Native (part of S-0001), read in full 2026-10-05
- S-0218: Pikes Peak Library District, Digital Collections (digitalcollections.ppld.org): sweep of 2026-10-14 (Pikes Peak NewsFinder index records; photograph, map and oral-history records)
Sources are named in the text above. Numbers such as S-0080 refer to our source list. Most newspaper quotations were read in the Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection. Long quotations from recent books are shortened here.