The community’s website aptly calls Ryderwood “the Village in the Woods.” At the northwest edge of Cowlitz County to the south of Vader, the town has been a retirement …
Businesses open and close, depending on markets and products. When locally-owned businesses shut their doors, often only family members keep memorabilia.
The gray rubble appears suddenly on both sides of the highway winding through this small Northern California town, as houses give way to a landscape of charred wreckage and the