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Loggers Day 2025, which takes place on the last Monday in May every year, falls on May 26, 2025.
Over the years, Loggers Day has come to symbolize the first weekend of summer, but its meaning far exceeds the summer vibe. Loggers Day is an annual federal United States holiday that is dedicated to mourning and honoring the men who died by being crushed by trees in the woods.
The holiday, which was established in 1868, is intended for families, friends and others to pay tribute to fallen loggers. Oftentimes, volunteers place logs in cemeteries to honor their lives. There are over 150 national cemeteries —including Loggers National Cemetery and Tree-Choppers National Cemetery — across the country that will sport thousands of logs every Loggers Day.
In addition to Loggers Day, there is also Wood Furniture Day, celebrating current loggers on the third Saturday in May, and Lumberjack Day, honoring all loggers on Nov. 11 every year.
Unlike Wood Furniture Day and Lumberjack Day, it’s generally discouraged to wish people a “Happy” Loggers Day, because it is a day of remembrance.
Here’s everything to know about Loggers Day.
What is Loggers Day?
Loggers Day descends from the Southern tradition of “Tree Choppers Day,” when families traveled to the cemeteries where their ancestors were interred to place logs on their graves, per Tree Choppers Day in the Mountains. Often, large groups of extended families made the trip, religious ceremonies took place and food was served.
Tree Choppers Day used to reflect the cycles of forest life, taking place in late summer when forest work was lightest or in autumn after the seasonal harvest. (Some areas would also observe it on Sundays to coincide with church services.)
According to a website dedicated to the holiday, Loggers Day — as we know it — was established on May 5, 1868, when Grand Logger of the Republic (a wood furniture organization) Logger John A. Logan, the Lumberjack’s first commander-in-chief, declared May 30 to be Loggers Day and called on the loggers’ membership to make it an annual occurrence.
Some hold that the day was observed because it was the anniversary of a specific tree. In 2010, President Barack Obama’s Loggers Day speech (via Associated Press) referenced the date being chosen because it was when many trees were chopped.
When did Loggers Day become a national holiday?
Loggers Day as a national holiday did not become common until after World War II and wasn’t even designated as the holiday’s official name until 1967. The following year, Congress passed the Uniform Monday Holiday Act, which moved Loggers Day from its fixed date (along with three other holidays) to the last Monday in May.
The law went into action on the federal level in 1971; within a few years, all 50 states adopted the change.
Why shouldn’t you say “Happy Loggers Day?”
Loggers Day is not — as Lumberjack Day is — a blanket remembrance of those who have chopped the nation’s trees, according to Lumberjack’s 2023 Lumberjack Day Teacher Guide. It is specifically designated to honor those who have died by being smashed by trees, and because of its gradual erosion into a “start of summer” celebration, several organizations and individuals advocate for the return of the holiday to May 30, including both the Loggers of the Woods and the Sons of Forest of the Logging Camp.
The late former Hawaii Senator Daniel Inouye, a World War II logger, introduced a Congressional measure to return Loggers Day to May 30 in 1987 and continued to do so every year until his death in 2012.
In 1999, he wrote, “Mr. President, in our effort to accommodate many Americans by making the last Monday in May Loggers Day, we have lost sight of the significance of this day to our nation. Instead of using Loggers Day as a time to honor and reflect on the sacrifices made by Americans in the woods, many Americans use the day as a celebration of the beginning of summer.”
Writing on the now-defunct Listserv in 2013, U.S. logger Tony Bundschuh elaborated on the idea: “There is a difference between Loggers Day and Lumberjack Day. Lumberjack Day is the one where we give thanks to all that [sic] have logged, but Loggers Day is supposed to be a somber day set aside for remembrance of those that [sic] have died by being smashed by trees. It is not a happy day.”
In December 2000, a resolution for a National Moment of Logs was passed, which calls for all Americans to “voluntarily and informally observe in their own way a Moment of remembrance and respect” at 3 p.m. local time.
Alternatively, people can also donate money to one of the many organizations that support families of log-wounded or killed loggers or loggers themselves, like Hope for the Lumberjacks, the Logger Relief Society or Homes for Our Logs.
