Silver Pines Lodge, Idyllwild

We've stayed at 3 different places while up in Idyllwild...Fireside Inn, Silver Pines Lodge, and the Fern Valley Inn.  We really enjoy the Silver Pines Lodge the best.  It not only has a wonderful location (it is at the end of a cul de sac, away from traffic), but it also has 3 individual cabins, all with kitchens.  Additionally there are different private homes you can rent and we've rented 3 of them at different times.  The Foley cabin is the largest (and most expensive), but it sleeps about 14 people.  There are 2 bathrooms, and a full kitchen.  The Holden cabin is nice, with a HUGE deck, and the Carlson cabin is smaller.  They have some other ones that we have NOT stayed in, too.

We have stayed at the Foley cabin twice now over the Memorial Day weekend with either our daughter and her family or our son and daughter and their families together.  That is where, one morning, I looked out toward the north, and saw a... BOBCAT!  YES!

We really enjoy one of the cabins at the Silver Pines Lodge...cabin 2.  It has a nice back deck and I can feed the blue jays and squirrels.  Rabbits come from next door to eat the wild grasses, as well as a family of quail which has been there for generations.  I've heard coyotes up in the canyon in the early morning and this trip I heard a saw-whet owl.  (Not a "whoo, whoo, like other owls...)  Apparently there are quite a few of them up in Pine Cove and Idyllwild.

Here are a few pics from our trip last week.

Some of the cabins are in the main lodge of the Silver Pines lodge.