Stay on the mountain

You are a guest here. The land has other residents.

Sunstone sits inside one of Southern California's genuinely wild places, and it behaves like it. Black bears move through the property. Mule deer graze the meadow at dusk. Coyotes call across the ridge at night, bobcats hunt the treeline, and a mountain lion passes through more often than most guests would guess.

Above, the sky does its own show. Big Bear is home to a famous pair of nesting bald eagles, and hawks ride the thermals along the ridgeline all day. In the pines you'll hear Steller's jays arguing, Clark's nutcrackers working the cones, mountain chickadees, and the drum of a northern flicker on a dead snag.

And the forest itself is the reason all of it is here. At this elevation you're standing in old Jeffrey pine - bark that smells like butterscotch in the afternoon sun - alongside sugar pine with its foot-long cones, white fir, incense cedar, California black oak, and the lodgepole pine that only appears once you're high enough.

Guests arrive expecting a venue. What they talk about afterward is the quiet, the smell of the pines, and the deer that showed up at breakfast.

What's here

Check our calendar

The calendar below shows Sunstone's own programming. Dates outside those gatherings are generally open for lodging stays; tell us your dates and we confirm availability across the cabins and the Lodge.