Heritage sites, Archaeological discoveries, History of Archaeology

Tioga Road or Big Oak Flat Road

Location

Manteca

Country

United States

Year of Research

1849

Culture

Big Oak Flat Road offers in the spectacular passage over the Sierra Nevada.
Drive through the highest automobile pass in California and knowledge an elevation change of over one mile.
Experience glacier-carved granite peaks, pristine lakes, wildflower-covered meadows and lush evergreen forests with Giant Sequoia groves in this peaceful yet rugged scenery.
Crocker’s Station was the construction headquarters during the building of the Great Sierra Wagon Road and later provided a contented stopping place for those using in the road for business and enjoyment.
Many well known names grace in the Crocker register, among them John Muir, Stewart Edward White, Edwin Markham and Herbert Hoover.
The resort was considered by many the showplace of the road.
Although sold by Widow Crocker in 1910, the station continued to their provide the Yosemite-bound until 1920, when numerous of the buildings were moved and the rest allowed to decay. Tioga Road.
In 1931 the Aspen Valley Lodge complex contains the lodge, a rooming house, store, gasoline station, auto repair garage, laundry, restaurant and the old two story log homestead cabin in use as a warehouse.