NORTH FORK–Every year Sierra Vista Scenic Byway Association offers the opportunity to learn more about the local mountain region by booking free tours along the Scenic Byway. This year you can join the tour of the second stop on the Byway, the historic Jesse Ross Cabin. Connie Popelish, retired district archaeologist for the Sierra National Forest, will lead the tour. She led the Forest Service’s project to relocate and restore the Ross Cabin in 1991.
To learn more about the Ross Cabin preservation efforts and the story of Jesse Ross and his homestead, meet the group at 9:00 a.m. at the North Fork Community Development Council office (on the site of the old North Fork Mill) to watch a 10-minute video of this project, then continue up the Sierra Vista Scenic Byway to the Ross Cabin (about a 25-minute drive). From the parking lot to the cabin, it is a short 450-foot hike where Connie tells the story of the Ross family and how Jesse Ross came to build his homestead in the mountains above North Fork.
The tour then continues another half mile up the byway to the original site of the cabin and the graves of Jesse Ross, his daughter Julia Bell and her husband Frank Hallock on the site of today’s NOMA Resort.
Bring water, your lunch and good hiking shoes.
The owners of Noma Resort give us a short tour of the property and we have a picnic at one of the ponds they created.
When: Saturday, August 31, 2024
Where: Meeting at the CDC office in Old mill site Conference room in North Fork
Time: 9:00 am
It would be helpful if you would reply to [email protected] if you would like to participate.
