Echo Summit Resorts and Lodges
Only a limited choice of lodges are available for visitors along the Highway 50 corridor from Pollock Pines to Echo Summit. Visitors should make reservations early to ensure lodging for desired dates. The Echo Chalet has a number of Chaletlees which it rents during the summer. Farther west the Strawberry Lodge is a well-known stopping place in both summer and winter.
Echo Chalet
Echo Chalet, on the shore of Echo Lakes at the top of the pass, operates in the summer, offering rental cabins, a marina, boat taxi service, a post office, store, soda fountain, and deli. They will hold packages for Pacific Crest Trail hikers for a limited time.
9900 Echo Lake Road, Echo Summit, CA 95721
(530) 659-7207 (8 AM - 6 PM, summers only)
Echo Chalet
Marina Services
All boats are required to be inspected for nuisance plants and mussels and may only be launched during operating hours. Motor boats must be 4-stroke or direct fuel-injected 2-stroke engines (such as Evinrude Ficht or E-Tec).
Launch Ramp: Open for public use during high water conditions. Trailered or motorized boats, car-top or inflatables (non-motorized), canoes, paddleboards, and kayaks.
Boat Service: Routine service, plus warranty work on Bombardier, Evinrude, and Johnson marine products.
Fuel, oil
Canoe and kayak rentals
Taxi Service: Echo Chalet to landing at north end of upper lake and to cabins around the lakes.
Accommodations
Echo Chalet's Chaletlees are cabins built in 1947. Most have kitchenettes with a small refrigerator. All have bathrooms. There are no TVs, telephones or microwaves. The cabins are on the hillside above Echo Lake. There is a 2 night minimum stay.
- Chaletlee 7, 8, and 9: duplexes, sleep 2
- Chaletlee 3, 4, and 10: duplexes, sleep 4
- Chaletlee 11: sleeps 2 + futon
- Chaletlee 12: detached kitchen, sleeps 2 + hide-a-bed
Strawberry Lodge
Strawberry Lodge is situated at Strawberry, along the American River at the foot of famous Lover's Leap, At an elevation of 5,700 feet, the lodge is 39 miles east of Placerville and 9 miles from Echo Summit. Strawberry Lodge features accommodations, a restaurant and bar, and gardens.
While the Strawberry Lodge is temporarily closed during the winter of 2022-23, hopefully it will reopen soon. Check their website.
17510 Highway 50, Kyburz, CA
(530) 659-7200
Strawberry Lodge
The lodge offers both European Style rooms with shared single-sex men's and women's bathroomsdown the hall and also rooms with bathrooms. In the Annex all rooms have private bathrooms. There are no TVs or telephones and outside food or beverages might not be brought into the lodge.
- European Style Rooms for 2
- European Style Rooms for 3
- Standard Lodge Rooms for 2
- Standard Lodge Rooms for 4
- Standard Lodge Rooms for 5 - 6
- Annex Rooms for 2 - 4