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.
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.
The essentials- On the East Fork
- Dogs welcome
- Open year-round
- 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)
Stated plainly- Zero cell reception
- Free Wi-Fi at the resort
Dog fee — $30 for the visit, declared at booking, priced in the receiptCheck‑in 2pm · Check‑out 11amNo limit on how many dogs, or how bigSleeps 4 · 1 bedroom · 2 beds (1 queen, 1 full) · 1 bathThe plain terms.
Deposit & balance — tonight’s deposit is half the lodging, plus Alpine County’s tax on that half; the balance is charged automatically about a week before arrival, to the same card.
Dogs — $30 for the whole visit, declared at booking. Dogs camp free at the riverside sites.
Times — check-in from 2pm, check-out by 11am. Campsites and RV slots turn over at noon.
Cancellation — Cancelling: a $25 cancellation fee applies to any cancelled reservation, and the rest of what you paid goes back to the card it came from — or keep the whole of it as an open credit toward a future stay, with no fee. Either way, call (530) 694-2229 and talk to us — we are a family resort and we would rather hear from you than not.
