# The Sasquatch

Source page: https://carsonriverresorts.com/sasquatch

Resort lore · The ridge across the river

Two videos, a quarter-million views between them, and a ridge you can see from a picnic table on our bank. The resort is not going to tell you it's real, and it is certainly not going to tell you it isn't.

In September 2021 a video went up titled "Carson River Sasquatch Video
Climbs Tree" — a dark shape on a ridge above a camp, spotted, and then
climbing. It has been watched about a hundred and eight thousand times.
In April 2025 the same channel, Rocky Mountain Sasquatch, posted a
follow-up — "Carson River Bigfoot Climbs Tree on Video" — and that one
has passed a hundred and seventy-six thousand views. Around here, nobody
needed the videos to tell them which ridge that is: the one straight
across the river from campsite 4.

Watch them yourself and make up your own mind —
[the 2021 video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlyvLTyMA00) and
[the 2025 follow-up](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOC_J8-EehA) are
both on YouTube. What we can vouch for is the geography: the ridge is
real, the river between you and it is real, and the far bank has
documented residents — [a cinnamon black bear walks it](/explore/wildlife)
on our own footage, deer cross at the riffles, and eagles work the
canyon. Whether something else is up there too is between you and the
tree line.

The viewing platform for all of this is a picnic table. Campsite 4 faces
the ridge dead-on across the water — [book it by number](/book?cabin=camping)
like any riverside site — and the evening routine writes itself: dinner
on the table, eyes on the slope, one person swearing the shadow by the
big pine just moved. Bring binoculars for the birds either way; they
work on shadows too. And if your camera catches something, bring it to
the counter — the store's wall has room, and the people behind it will
want to see.

The legend has a gift shelf now. [The General Store](/general-store)
carries the resort's sasquatch tumbler alongside the mugs and the carved
welcome bears — proof that whatever is or isn't on the ridge, it has
already earned its place at the counter. Come for a night on the river,
leave with the story and the cup.

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