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Forty miles of marked trail
We maintain four loop trails spanning distances from two miles for a meadow walk to fourteen miles for a ridge traverse. All trailheads…
Wild Meadow Trail is a small hiking lodge tucked into the foothills of the San Bernardino Mountains, California. Eight rooms, forty miles of marked trail, and no TVs.
Wild Meadow Trail

Four rooms located in the original 1940s ranch house, all equipped with a queen bed, a small writing…

Four rooms situated in the renovated cattle barn, featuring exposed Douglas fir beams and…

A single room in the ranch house offering a private en-suite bathroom, a king bed, and a small…

All eight rooms available for exclusive group reservation. Frequently selected by trail running groups, families…
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We maintain four loop trails spanning distances from two miles for a meadow walk to fourteen miles for a ridge traverse. All trailheads…
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The lodge contains eight rooms, which is our standard capacity. Breakfast is prepared individually to order rather than served buffet-style, and Laura is responsible for…
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Laura traverses the perimeter trail on Sundays each week and records current conditions for each route, displaying this information on the board positioned near the entrance…
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The upper ridge trail passes through a forest of black oaks and big-leaf maples. During the period from mid-October to mid-November…
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Autumn in the San Bernardino foothills is not a single event. It unfolds in stages from early October through late December, and each stage changes what you'll find on the trail. The oak colour gets the most attention, but the shift in temperature, the drop in creek levels, and the change in light are just as significant for anyone planning a multi-day hiking trip in the area.
Read more →The Ridgeline Traverse is the trail guests either plan their whole trip around or discover on day two and wish they'd done on day one. It's fourteen miles out and back, gains about 2,400 feet from the lodge, and takes most fit hikers between six and eight hours. This is a straightforward account of what the trail is actually like.
Read more →The gear lending closet at Wild Meadow Trail started with two trekking poles a guest left behind in 2009. It now fills a full closet off the front hallway. The items in it are the things guests most often forget, underestimate, or decide not to pack because they didn't think they'd need them. Most of the time, they do.
Read more →"Laura Harrington has run Wild Meadow Trail since she converted a working cattle property into a hiking lodge in 2004. She manages the day-to-day herself: trail maintenance, guest check-ins, and the morning coffee that's ready before anyone asks. Before the lodge, she spent several years leading backcountry trips in the Sierra Nevada, which shaped how she thinks about trail safety and pacing. She keeps the property to eight guest rooms so she can give each group her full attention, and she still walks the perimeter trail every Sunday to check conditions firsthand."