
Tourism
Tuolumne County can offer you a new idea for your conference or board meeting. Try a new venue in Tuolumne County, where the folks are warm and hospitable and the sounds and smells are welcoming. Trade the traffic for historic roads. Trade the cookie cutter facilities for something historic, yet business friendly, or perhaps you still want the more traditional facilities but in a friendlier setting.
Perhaps you’re fed up with the overnight parking fees and the double-digit room taxes or no fresh, complimentary in-room coffee. Are you aware that Tuolumne County has some of the finest food and beverage service in California? Consider the City Hotel in Columbia State Park or the Groveland Hotel, just outside Yosemite National Park, both with award-winning restaurants and Wine Spectator Award of Excellence Wine Lists.
Or do you have a larger group and wish to have recognized chain accommodations? Tuolumne County offers the Sonora Oaks Best Western in East Sonora, the Inns of California, and the Sonora Days Inn in downtown Sonora. Then there’s the Lazy Z Resort in Twain Harte or the Dodge Ridge Ski Resort, on Upper Highway 108 with facilities for larger groups.
There are many traditional lodging facilities offering meeting facilities and those include Mi Wuk Village Inn and Resort, Pinecrest Lake Resort, Aladdin Motor Inn and the Sonora Country Inn.
There are also many lovely bed and breakfast inns, which include the McCaffrey House, Jamestown Hotel, National Hotel, Barretta Gardens Inn, the Blue Nile Inn, the Manzanita House, the Bella Collina Bed & Breakfast, Sterling Gardens Inn, and The Palm Hotel.
And you’ll be very pleased at the business facilities offered by most of these properties. Services run the gamut from in-room modems and voice mail, to full-service business centers and staff to meet your every need.
Then there’s the incredible opportunities for leisure activities, should you wish to mix business with a little pleasure. Tuolumne County probably has more unique activities than any other area of the state. These include everything from the awesome vistas and hiking opportunities of Yosemite National Park to the perfect acoustics of Bower Cave, spelunking in Moaning Caverns, panning for gold in Columbia State Park and world-class white water rafting on the Tuolumne River.
There are also more traditional activities such as championship golf courses throughout the county, horseback riding, fly-fishing in some of the state’s most scenic streams, and exciting hikes, such as up the Clavey River to God’s Bathtub or through forests along Upper Highway 108.