On Hwy 108 /Sonora Pass at about 7,000 feet is a horse and trip staging area for the Emigrant Wilderness Area. Just a short 1/4 mile hike from the lodge, store and cabins is a wonderful large flat grassy meadows where the Middle Fork of the Stanislaus River wanders past.
The colors vary from the bright green grasses of the spring snow melt, and the yellow fall colors of the trees and shrubs. The gray of the steep granite mountains behind the backdrop.
