Avalon

What Was Avalon?

Avalon was a stove brand from Washington State. In 2000, its website promised “wood, gas and pellet-fueled technology” in “a complete line for every fuel preference,”^[2] and by 2008 that meant wood, gas, and pellet stoves, wood, gas, and pellet inserts, and gas and electric fireplaces.^[7]

The brand leaned hard on the Northwest. Avalon's 1999 wood stove brochure opens with icy peaks and untamed wilderness, and it tied each stove to the landscape: the Olympic to the Olympic Mountains, the Rainier to the region's dormant volcanoes, and the Pendleton to the pioneers who crossed the prairies to reach the Northwest.^[1] That brochure carries a 1999 Kirkland, Washington, copyright.^[1] Travis Industries moved from Kirkland to Mukilteo in 2003,^[21] and by 2009 Avalon described every product as made on Travis's 11-acre House of Fire campus there.^[12]

When Did Avalon Start, and When Did Travis Own It?

Travis made Avalon for as far back as its own records go. The oldest manual in Avalon's archive covers the 700 and 901 wood stoves, listed as 1987 models,^[18] and it reads “Manufactured By: Travis Industries, Inc.” with a Kirkland, Washington, address.^[3] The manual for the Avalon 1196, made from 1990 to 1993, carries Travis's five-year warranty,^[18][4] and Travis's own pellet history chart starts the Avalon 900 PS pellet stove in 1990.^[6]

Travis Industries itself took that name after Lopi, the stove company Kurt Rumens started in a Bellevue garage, was sold to Spokane manufacturer Travis Garske in 1988.^[21] A 2009 Avalon promotion quotes Rumens as “president of the Avalon brand of fireplaces, stoves and inserts.”^[12]

We couldn't find a published record of when the Avalon name was first used on stoves, who started it, or the date Travis took it on, so we don't give one. If you have an Avalon catalog from the 1980s, we'd like to see it.

Was Avalon Really the Cleanest-Burning Stove Line in the World?

That was Avalon's claim. The 1999 brochure says “Avalon has been independently rated as the cleanest burning stove line in the world!” and, a page earlier, that “Avalon manufactures the cleanest burning non-catalytic woodstove line in the world.”^[1] The brochure doesn't name who did the rating, so read it as Avalon's word.

The numbers behind it were low for the day. The brochure lists emissions of 2.6 grams an hour for the Olympic, 2.0 for the Rainier, and 3.0 for the Pendleton, from an EPA Phase II, non-catalytic design. It credits the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality with rating Avalon among the most efficient non-catalytic stoves.^[1]

The design worked on what the brochure called the three T's of combustion: turbulence, temperature, and time. A single draft control fed air through a manifold to the fire and to an air wash that kept the glass clear, while secondary burn tubes added air above the fire. Firebrick lined the box, a firebrick baffle held the gases in the heat, and a five-sided convection chamber pushed warm air back into the room without a blower.^[1]

Which Avalon Models Were the Most Famous?

Olympic. The big one. The 1999 brochure rates the Olympic stove for 1,500 to 2,500 square feet, with 24-inch logs, up to 12 hours of burn time, and a cooktop, and calls it “one of the cleanest-burning large wood stoves ever approved by the EPA.” It came as a stove and as Avalon's largest insert.^[1]

Rainier. The middle size and, in the brochure's words, “our most popular woodstove.” It's rated for 800 to 1,800 square feet with 20-inch logs and up to 9 hours, as a stove or an insert.^[1]

Pendleton. The small one, for a single room or a small home: 600 to 1,200 square feet and 17-inch logs. It was approved for mobile homes and could sit as a hearth stove in front of a fireplace.^[1]

The Olympic and Rainier stoves stayed in the lineup into 2017.^[14] By 2008, Avalon also sold the Spokane 1250 and 1750 wood stoves, the Arbor wood stove, and the Perfect Fit flush wood insert,^[8][9] and a 2009 tax-credit promotion featured the Arbor cast-iron pellet stove.^[12]

On the pellet side, the Avalon 900 started in 1990, the Avanti replaced it in 1997, and the Avanti was renamed the Newport in 1998. The Astoria pellet stove followed in 2001 and the Astoria Bay pellet insert in 2003.^[6] Avalon's gas models carried Northwest names too, among them the Chelan, Salish, Vashon, Winthrop, and Seattle, along with the Tree of Life gas stove.^[18][11]

When and Why Was Avalon Discontinued?

In early 2018. Avalon's website was still selling stoves on February 1, 2018.^[16] By February 11, its home page read: “Our Avalon line of products are no longer available for sale but we think you will like our FireplaceX and Lopi brands just as much.”^[17] In 2017, Avalon's wood stove page listed just the Olympic and Rainier, and its wood insert page listed five models.^[14][15] In 2016, its home page featured the AGP pellet stove and the 616 GSR gas insert.^[13]

Travis didn't publish a reason that we could find. What it did was send Avalon buyers to its other two stove brands, Lopi and Fireplace Xtrordinair.^[17] The AVALON trademark Travis registered in 2005 was cancelled on July 10, 2026.^[20]

Can I Still Get Parts and Manuals for an Avalon?

Yes. In January 2026, Avalon's website still said that replacement parts for Avalon wood, gas, and pellet appliances “can be purchased and/or serviced through our Lopi and Fireplace Xtrordinair Dealer networks.”^[19] So your first call is a Lopi or Fireplace Xtrordinair dealer. Find the label on your stove first, with the model and serial number.

Manuals are still online, too. Travis still hosts Avalon's old manuals and brochures as PDFs on its own site, including the 1999 wood stove brochure and the Newport pellet stove manual,^[1][5] and an archived copy of Avalon's Manual Archives page lists the gas, wood, and pellet models with their years.^[18]