# River Cabin Source page: https://carsonriverresorts.com/stay/river-cabin The one cabin with a bedroom of its own: a queen behind a door, a full bed in the main room, a full-size stove and oven, a wood stove for the cold end of the year, and a covered porch out over the East Fork. There is a charcoal grill on the patio and a firepit down at the water. The building came down from Monitor Pass in the early 1900s — who moved it, and exactly when, nobody wrote down — and it has stood beside this river ever since. Sleeps 4 — a queen in its own bedroom, a full bed in the main room · one bath with a stall shower Full kitchen — full fridge, full-size stove and oven, microwave, coffee pot, toaster, pots, pans and utensils · wood stove in the main room, electric baseboard heat in the bedroom, fan for summer · front patio, charcoal grill, and a firepit down by the river · room for an extra tent ($10 for the stay) Start with the building itself, because it is older than every story on this page. Phil's own account: №7 came down from Monitor Pass in the early 1900s and was placed where it stands — no record survives of who moved it or the exact year. Buildings traveled in this county; Markleeville's old log jail came down the mountain the same way. The plainest name on the row belongs to the era that made this a fishing resort. Tony and Jeannette Whitney bought the flat in 1946 and ran it the way you did then: as hunting, fishing, and packing guides, catching wild mustangs in central Nevada and breaking them, mostly, as pack animals. They added a gas station. They ordered kit cabins from Sears and put them up beside the river. And they kept chickens — exotic ones, chosen for their feathers, which supplied the family's fly-tying cabin. Jim Brune, who grew up next door, remembers Tony inventing a fly for this river and calling it the "Carson King." Its dressing was recovered from a printed shop list: peacock herl body, brown neck hackle, a golden pheasant tippet tail, no wing. Its twin, the Carson Queen, is the same fly with yellow floss where the herl goes. The fly-tying cabin later became Cabin #1 of the row, and burned — which is why the numbers here start at two. A fire in 1947 came over the hill and scorched the big house, though no building burned. Then came the ice-jam high water of 1950 and the November flood, and that winter the Whitneys left for Stockton. The cabins and the river stayed. Fish the water this cabin is named for: the stocked family stretch is out the door, and the famous special-regulation canyon water starts a mile downstream, below Hangman's Bridge. The century of stories is in A Century at Carson River Resort, in The Story. --- Carson River Resort · 12399 Highway 89, Markleeville, CA 96120 · (530) 694-2229 · store open 8am to 6pm, every day. Machine-readable facts, units and policies: https://carsonriverresorts.com/api/agent/index.json