Virginia Lakes Resort — Hotel in Mammoth Lakes

If you want to stay at 9500 feet in the Sierra Nevada in the presence of majestic mountains and three serene lakes, this is the place!||||To do so, make sure you arrive with all gear, food and beverages needed for the duration of your stay. The nearest small store is about 20 miles away in Bridgeport or Lee Vining. If you plan to fish, the resort offers a very good assortment of bait and tackle, and friendly advice too. You can even rent a row boat.||||Our cabin consisted of a small, but functional, kitchen that contained a sink, propane stove and an electric fridge, plus everything needed to prepare, serve and eat a meal. Our bathroom consisted of a toilet, sink and small shower. We had a living area that could sleep 3 to 4 and a bedroom with a king bed. By mountain standards accommodations were rather spacious and comfortable. In all the cabin functioned nicely and our creek side deck made patio living very enjoyable.||||Three nearby lakes offer ample opportunity to fish from the banks, float tube or row boat. I observed fellow anglers catching fish, but I, for reasons unknown, failed to make the connection.||||Hiking trails take you into the Hoover Wilderness. While beautiful, the trails present a significant altitude challenge. If you have physical limitations at sea level, you should not go here. I live at 5300 feet and routinely hike at up to 9000 feet. Here, I started at 9500 feet and went up from there. I moved uphill slowly!||||I liked the apple pie too.||||You go here for where it is and what you can do here. Do not go expecting a three star or above hotel experience. But do expect this to be a major step up from living in a...

One star is too high of a rating for this so called “resort.” This place is overpriced, under-kept, and badly managed by very poorly-mannered owners.

Carolyn and John Webb, the owners of the property, shouldn’t be in the hospitality business. From the moment my partner and I checked in, they made us feel like we were a nuisance. We asked for ONE extra towel and Carolyn put up a fight for several minutes saying that there’s no reason for two people to have THREE towels during our stay. Anytime we entered the lodge to buy fishing supplies or food (which was consistently poorly made and overpriced) or ask a simple question, they would either ignore us or begrudgingly help us out several minutes later (even when we were the ONLY people in the lodge).

Don’t stay here if you enjoy cleanliness. The bathroom sink hot water barely trickled out of the faucet and the shower was jury-rigged from rusty sheet metal. The lighting was so dim that when you closed the shower curtain, you couldn’t see a thing. We had to hang one of our waterproof lanterns in the shower just to see what soap bottle we were reaching for. My partner has done humanitarian trips in Kenya and she said they had nicer showers than this dump.

The only nice employee was a young woman named Sarah. We witnessed the owners yell at her on multiple occasions, but she was a very sweet person. We just hope she gets paid enough to put up with their abusive management.

The lakes and hiking trails are beautiful, but we recommend finding another place to stay during...

My family first stumbled on VLR after stopping for pie @The Summit in 1938. We went in to see and the road was dirt, difficult for pre -war cars and desolate for a few miles but drops into copses of old Pines and the resort had five cabins and one lapstrake boat on Little Virginia and Trumble lakes..(that is correct spelling but the signs all say Trumbull). Read history above. Walt and Anita Foster hosted us and we loved it so much, we returned until new ownership ran it into the ground. My own family went in years later to find Carolyn and John Webb now ran it and much had changed, vastly for the better, and John was a genius at upkeep and hospitality, as was Carolyn. Now more cabins and amenities such as electricity and refrigeration. They built some new cabins which are beautiful. They have run it now for about 35 years and we returned regularly until my wife died last year and my "kids", all in their fifties, have their own lives, agendas, and interests to care for. I find it interesting that my Dad, an ardent fisherman, brought HIS Dad one year and he fished the stream from Big V successfully with flies! As I am now 86 years old, this is quite a legacy. We had a lot of fun with the Webbs; preserved in their albums.Obvously, my association and regards for the Virginia Lakes Resort is of the...