Tensile wood creep has not been measured previouslyin the temperature region 135°C – 150°C for a rangeof moisture content (MC) up to fiber saturation point dueto equipment and measurement challenges. Yet this is theregion where the most dramatic softening effects can beobserved. The aim of this study was to develop specializedequipment to measure tensile solid wood creep over70°C – 150° C for a range of MC and loads. Creep displacementwas successfully able to be isolated from elasticand mechanosorptive strains and statistically modeledby regression analysis. This proved more accurate thancomplex series expansions consisting of spring- and dashpot-type components. The best creep displacement relationshipwas a power law with a strain root mean squareerror of 0.28%. The amplitude of the power law was nonlinearwith respect to stress and temperature and changedby a stress factor of up to 0.9 for a stress of up to 1.2 MPaand by a temperature factor 1.2 – 6.3 over the investigatedrange. The creep relationship provides a valuable tool forpredicting time-dependent distortion and internal stressof wood during drying or thermohygromechanical modificationbelow 150°C.