Men of the Codger Pole.

The Codger Pole

The Codger Pole, a 65-foot-tall chainsaw sculpture, commemorates a 1988 high school football rematch -- played fifty years after the first game, by the same participants (Colfax lost to St. John in 1938 -- no word who won the rematch). The pole is actually a fagot of five separate cedar logs with the heads of all the golden-aged players carved into them, topped by a Ponderosa Pine and a generic bearded "codger." It's claimed that the pole is both the world's largest chainsaw sculpture of human likenesses and the world's largest football monument.

Town fathers did a great job promoting and placing directional signs to The Codger Pole, perhaps because town fathers were the same people portrayed on it.

The Codger Pole

Address:: 324 South Main St., Colfax, WA
Directions:: On Hwy 195, between Pullman and Spokane between two insurance agencies. Look toward the town's concrete riverbed, and you'll see the Codger Pole, centerpiece of a square built around it.
RA Rates:: Worth a Detour

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May 26, 2013