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5 The men built trails, cabins, and bridges in parks
across the country. They learned to lay rock, pour
cement, build lakes, operate bulldozers, and drive
trucks. They worked with axes, rakes, and saws to

create the trails, roads, and buildings that now exist
throughout our nation’s national and state parks and
forests. These are some of their stories.

Far from Home

6 Some CCC workers ended up traveling for hundreds—
or thousands—of miles to get to their worksite. One
Alabama teen, Armond Allbritton, rode a train north

with his group to Chicago, and then transferred to
another train headed west. The train
passed through scenery and
mountains that Allbritton had never

seen the likes of before, including
crossing the Continental Divide near
Butte, Montana. His group made it all
the way to the Pacific Ocean, which

he saw for the first time, and then to
his camp in Warrenton, Oregon.
Allbritton’s work with the CCC
involved planting grass on the beach

to help control erosion, and he also
worked in Fort Stevens State Park and
at Fort Clatsop National Monument.

Men peel a log for a building, at Camp F-20
in the Olympic National Forest, Washington.

erosion Erosion is the process of
wearing away something by wind, water,
or other natural agents.

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