The Van Camp Cabins are set back on a large lot on the corner of Moffat Avenue and Rich Street. The main building still has a log exterior and is shaped like a horse shoe as it was originally. When built this single story buidling had a sod roof, double casement sash windows on each end of the horse shoe, and single casement
sash windows surrounding the front entrance in the center of the horse shoe. Today the right side of the horse shoe has been widened toward the center, the left side has one sash window and an entrance, and the center has one large fixed paned picture window. The building also has a metal gabled roof now.

The main building of Van Camp Cabins was part of the first structures in what is now Yampa. The original homesteader was Joe Ward. When he was forced to leave the area because of some trouble with local ranchers, the site was passed to Ira Van Camp in 1884. One of the reasons the site still bears his name is that the log home served as a community center in the early days. Van Camp sold the site to Rose Bopfinger in 1943. The next owner was William Pidcock who sold to the current owners, Monty and Susan Younglund in 1990.

Information gathered witht he help of Hildred Fogg of the Yampa Egeria Museum by Steven at Soroco High School, April 2005.