June Lake Loop - Silver Lake Resort

The June Lake loop and the associated lakes are around 7500' in elevation, so you have cool, crisp air and COLD, crystal clear lakes. Its a beautiful area. Just a few miles north of Oh! Ridge on the June Lake Loop is the Silver Lake Resort. It sits across the road from Silver Lake, a popular fishing spot. The resort is a fisherman's campground and the camping sites reflect this. The sites are not luxurious (although they are very clean and do have full hook-ups) or very private (i.e., gravel lot without any greenery separating the sites), but they do have a fish cleaning station.

Still, we spent 4 days there and enjoyed our stay. It was early in the season, so other campers were sparse, and the resort offered me a country store and restaurant and Tom a stream, aspen trees and waterfalls. All in all a relaxing stay.


We did attempt to get a closer view of the waterfalls. There's a hiking trail at the back of the resort that heads up the mountain, and we thought there was a look out at the falls. I gave up after a short climb, when the trail did not appear to have a switchback towards the falls. Tom continued on to meet up with a snowbank, a great view of the lake, and some deer.

Then as a farewell, there was a light dusting of snow the day we left.