The story about my cabin

A passion of mine has always been to travel someplace new every year. In 2007, I started thinking about investing in a vacation home in Costa Rica. After doing some research, I realized that it was a much better idea to get something closer to home, especially since I added dogs into my life!
I remembered camping in the Sequoias many years ago and started looking into the area. I found Camp Nelson, a tiny community up in the National Forest with stunning nature and very reasonable real estate prices, about a 3.5 hour drive from LA. I went up for a weekend to look around and ended up deciding on a cabin with a good sized property and amazing mountain-view.

The first summer of 2008, I spent most of my time working on turning the garage in to a guesthouse for my guests and as a tourist rental. The main house and property also needed a lot of TLC, and of course, a fenced in yard for my dogs was first on the priority list.

The summer of 2009, I enjoyed the amazing surroundings and nature of the area. There are numerous trails for hiking with stunning nature views and Giant Sequoias. The Stagg Tree (the 5th largest tree in the world) is a twenty minute drive from the cabin.
Mountain biking, rock climbing, fishing and horseback riding, are just a few of the popular activities up there. Just relaxing and rejuvenating is also fantastic!
I have seen many amazing places in nature all over the world, and I must say that the Sequoia National Forest match any
of them.

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For the next summer of 2010, I will start renting the main house when I’m not there, and my guest unit will have a large patio in the back of the house for entertainment and relaxing.
I have collected tourist information in a binder that is available in the Main & Guesthouse for your convenience.

The main house ($125/night) has two bedrooms with queen size beds and a pull out single bed. The couch is also a possibility. Sleeps 4-6 people.
The guesthouse ($75/night) has one queen bed and a queen size air mattress. The couch is also a possibility. Sleeps 2-5 people.
If you have a large party of people, there’s a special price of $175/night for both units.
Both units are dog friendly (but no dogs on the furniture, please). The main house has direct access to the fenced yard, so the dogs can run in and out as they please.

Additional information about each unit & booking is available at the website below:

• for main house

• for guest house

The drive for a day trip to the main entrance of the National Park, is about 1.5 hours (see more info below).

Sequoia National Park is a national park in the southern Sierra Nevada, east of Visalia, California, in the United States of America.

It was established in 1890 as the second U.S. national park, after Yellowstone National Park. The park spans 404,051 acres (1,635.14 km2). Encompassing a vertical relief of nearly 13,000 feet (3,962 m), the park contains among its natural resources the highest point in the contiguous 48 United States, Mount Whitney, at 14,505 feet (4,421 m) above sea level. The park is south of and contiguous with Kings Canyon National Park; the two are administered by the National Park Service as one unit, called Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks.
The park is most famous for its Giant Sequoia trees, including the General Sherman tree, one of the largest trees on Earth. The General Sherman tree grows in the Giant Forest, which contains five out of the ten largest trees in the world, in terms of wood volume. The Giant Forest is connected by the park's Generals Highway to Kings Canyon National Park's Grant Grove, home to the General Grant tree among other sequoias. The park's Giant Sequoia forests are part of 202,430 acres (81,920 ha) of old-growth forests shared by Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. Indeed, the parks preserve a landscape that still resembles the southern Sierra Nevada before Euro-American settlement.