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Sawmills & wood processorsin Washington

81 facilities across 25 counties — listed by the state forestry agency and grouped below by county.

These facilities may take delivered logs; that is different from buying trees still standing on your land. No agency record establishes current buying or a delivery appointment. Browse by county and call before hauling wood to a mill.

Facilities
81
Counties
25
On the map
81
With a phone
None

No Washington source in this dataset publishes a phone number, so none is shown. Each listing links to the agency record it came from. These counts are what the agencies published — not a census of every mill in Washington. AXE USA does not check any mill's licence, insurance, ability, or whether it is still in business.

What are you here to do?

These are published facility records, not offers to buy. Some mills take delivered logs but do not buy standing timber. No listing establishes current buying, prices or gate hours; call before hauling.

I have logs to deliver / need a mill

Browse the published listings and check the species, address and contact source. Call to confirm the mill is operating, accepts your load and can receive it before you travel.

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This is my mill

Find your facility in the list, open its record, then use that record’s own claim link. Records without a published address have no separate claim page.

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Where they sit

Coordinates published by the source agency. Haul distance is the whole economics of a small tract, so start here and read the listing second.

Sawmills near me

“Sawmill near me” in Washington

A search for a sawmill near me returns a list, not a map of your own ground: nothing on this page knows where you are standing, and a directory that guessed would be inventing the one fact that decides a haul. What it can do is order Washington the way a load actually travels - by county. 25 counties carry a listing, Cowlitz County the most at 10, and 11 counties carry exactly one. Start with your own county in the list below and read outward from it: the haul out of your gate is the part of a timber cheque you can still change.

Sawmill lumber near me is a different search again - that one wants a mill selling boards, not a mill buying logs. 52 of these 81 Washington listings name lumber as a product line on the agency record, so those are the ones worth a call for sawn stock - no source says whether a plant sells retail, in what dimensions, or in what quantity. Selling standing timber instead? the landowner's guide to selling timber takes the sale in the order it happens, and sealed bidding puts one tract in front of several buyers at once.

For landowners

Selling timber in Washington

The mills listed here are the buyers at the end of the line for Washington wood. A landowner rarely sells straight to one: a mill buys wood delivered to its gate, and getting trees there takes a logging crew, so the offer in front of you normally comes from a logger, a timber dealer, or a consulting forester selling on your behalf. Which mills sit within reach of your county is what decides who those bidders are and what they can afford to pay.

Haul distance is why a state mill list is worth anything to a seller. Trucking comes out of the same load the timber does, so a tract twenty minutes from a mill is worth more than the identical tract two hours away - same trees, different cheque. This page carries 81 facilities across 25 counties, all of them on the map above, so you can see what sits within working distance of your ground before anyone quotes you a number.

45 of the 81 Washington listings are sawmills, alongside 10 pulp & paper mills, 10 remans, 6 engineered woods, and a few other plant types. Tops and small stems are sold as pulpwood, and the 10 pulp & paper mills and 1 chip mill on this page are where that wood is taken. The Washington records name what each plant accepts - fir, hemlock, cedar, pine, and spruce among 13 species in all - so the species line on a card tells you whether your stand is what that mill runs. A stand is usually worth sorting into products - pulpwood, chip-n-saw, sawtimber, and veneer where the logs justify it - rather than selling the lot as one thing, and the mill type and species lines on every card below are where working that out starts.

Whoever ends up cutting it, run a process instead of taking the first offer. Hire a consulting forester who works for you, have the timber cruised and marked so every buyer is bidding on the same defined lot, then take sealed bids opened on a stated date. One unsolicited offer is a price, not the price. The landowner's guide walks the whole sale in the order it happens, and sealed bidding is how you put one tract in front of several buyers at once.

12 species are named across these Washington listings, fir by 38 of them. There is a guide here for Southern yellow pine and black walnut, each one covering grade, form, the defects that cost money and what the wood is normally cut for - which is how you work out whether your stand is what these mills run. Shorter entries on the same page cover Douglas-fir and spruce and true fir - what buyers take each for, and the catch.

Washington Department of Natural Resources publishes results of every state timber auction, sale by sale. Updated monthly. That is public record rather than a licensed average, so the page on timber prices in Washington can carry the figures themselves, each one with the sale and the edition behind it. A state average is still not your cheque - species, county, and which mills are buying this quarter decide that, which is the argument the market board makes at length.

Nothing bordering Washington is in this dataset yet - the agencies next door publish no list that could be fetched. Montana's 99 listings, Colorado's 58 listings and New Mexico's 50 listings sit in the same part of the country and are the nearest coverage here; the state-by-state index has the rest.

Every listing, by county

Counties alphabetical, mills alphabetical inside each county. Nothing is held back on a second page.

Every listing here has a page of its own - click a mill's name for its address, what it takes, and the mills nearest to it.

Clallam County

4 of 4 facilitiesClallam County page →

Clark County

5 of 5 facilitiesClark County page →

Cowlitz County

10 of 10 facilitiesCowlitz County page →

Ferry County

1 of 1 facility

Grays Harbor County

9 of 9 facilitiesGrays Harbor County page →

Jefferson County

1 of 1 facility

King County

1 of 1 facility

Kitsap County

1 of 1 facility

Klickitat County

1 of 1 facility

Lewis County

9 of 9 facilitiesLewis County page →

Mason County

2 of 2 facilities

Okanogan County

2 of 2 facilities

Pacific County

1 of 1 facility

Pend Oreille County

1 of 1 facility

Pierce County

6 of 6 facilitiesPierce County page →

Skagit County

3 of 3 facilitiesSkagit County page →

Skamania County

1 of 1 facility

Snohomish County

5 of 5 facilitiesSnohomish County page →

Spokane County

3 of 3 facilitiesSpokane County page →

Stevens County

5 of 5 facilitiesStevens County page →

Thurston County

1 of 1 facility

Walla Walla County

1 of 1 facility

Whatcom County

5 of 5 facilitiesWhatcom County page →

Whitman County

1 of 1 facility

Yakima County

2 of 2 facilities

Washington sources

Fetched 2026-08-18. Fields are never merged between documents, so a listing from a source with no phone number stays without one.

  • 81listings

    Washington Forest Products Processing Facilities (University of Washington / WA Dept of Commerce)

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Selling Washington timber?

No agency document says whether any of these mills is buying, what it pays, or how far it will haul. Put the tract out for sealed bids and let buyers answer that themselves.

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