The property available for filming is a two-story 1360 sq ft log cabin, 2-bedroom, den, and 1 ½ bath home and has an 18 x12 log out-building (affectionally called the “bunk house”). This is a unique property with a great deal of charm. It is approximately 3 miles from the center of town. The cabin/bunk house sits on approximately 1/3 acre of land with no homes behind for the back yard borders on the Inyo National Forest Service in Mammoth Lakes, where a stream/creek also exists. The cabin/bunk house is surrounded by an ecosystem populated by Aspen trees in the front yard, large Red Fir trees on the sides, and a very old Juniper tree which anchors the corner of the cabin/bunk houses in the back. Lodge pole and Jeffrey Pines are in the forest service area and there are hiking trails which can take you up the Bluffs. This property was previously used in the late 1980’s for two externally shot commercials (i.e.,. Chevrolet GEO and Mazda).

This cabin has unique features that can be utilized in the shoot. The kitchen contains an 1888 blue Great Majestic wood burning cook stove (i.e., made in St Louis). It is outfitted with silver metal fixtures and escutcheons. The hallway leading to the downstairs bathroom has an old crank phone while the bathroom has an 1880’s claw footed tub. The living room has a functioning contemporary wood burning stove and most of the floors are wood. There is a small interior staircase going to the second floor where two bedrooms and ½ bath are located. There is track lighting throughout the cabin. The cabin is sprinkled with antiques and incorporates Indigenous paintings and collectibles (including authentic Alaska Native art) that could be included in a shoot. The front of the cabin has a large front porch and side stairs which go to the large driveway, which is a combination of gravel, asphalt tailings, as well asphalt in the lower drive. The side driveway is large enough to park smaller (2-3) production vehicles or dressing trailers while a few other vehicles may be parked on the lower descending rustic asphalt drive.

Access to the Valentine Eastern Sierra Reserve, a center for research focusing upon support for studying natural land ecosystems across central and eastern CA, run by the University of CA Santa Barbara is a short walk away from this property. Other attractions, which are a short hike up the grade of old Mammoth Road and behind the cabin (i.e., the Bluffs), are old gold and silver mines (i.e., Mammoth Consolidate Gold Mine, Old Mammoth Mine and Mill City Mine). There is even a grave marker for Mrs. Townsend who succumbed to an illness during a long and very rough mining winter. In the upper areas above the bluffs are Lake Mary, the largest lake in the Mammoth Lakes Basin with an elevation of 8,920 feet. Shorter drives and further into town and closer to the Mammoth Mountain Lodge is access to Devils Postpile National Monument (i.e., geological wonder), Reds Meadow Valley, and Rainbow Falls.

This property is 5 hours by car from Los Angeles and 6 hours from San Francisco. Bishop CA, which has an airport, is located 45 minutes south of Mammoth and on the way up from Bishop one passes Crowley Lake and Convict Lakes (i.e., renamed for convicts who escaped prison in Carson City Nevada in 1871; Indigenous Paiute name is Wit-sa-nap); these lakes are approximately 11 miles south of this property. The eastern gate (i.e., Tioga Pass) to Yosemite’s National Park is a 40-minute drive north from this property as is Mono Lake/Basin (i.e. full of natural geological formations) in Lee Vining, while Bodie State Historic Park, known as one of CA’s notorious ghost gold mining town, is past Tioga Pass/Mono Lake and is approximately 53.4 miles from this property.