[1] It is located within the Sierra National Forest, 70 miles (110 km) northeast of Fresno via California State Route 168.

[4] The resort was built in 1935, a few years after Southern California Edison completed this section of the Kaiser Pass Road for the Big Creek Hydroelectric Project.

It is reached via the forest service's Kaiser Pass Road, 17 miles (27 km) northeast from its start at Huntington Lake.

[9] Large rounded rock formations of Sierra granite predominate the terrain, rising above the vegetation and river.

[11] Predominant trees in the surrounding forest include Sierra lodgepole pines (Pinus contorta subsp.