Edison Lake Ferry Tour

This wonderful description of VVR's Ferry Tour comes from an article written by Fresno Bee Sports Writer Bruce Ferris.

"During a pack trip from Yosemite Valley along the Pacific Crest Trail in 1894, Theodore Solomon was captivated by the beauty of a valley with a free flowing creek meandering through it, surrounded by tall, snow capped mountains.

Because of the soil color, Solomon named it Vermilion Valley. The stream was Mono Creek, dammed in 1954 to create Thomas A. Edison Lake, which covered much of the valley. It was part of the Big Creek Hydro system as a storage lake. Edison was named because it opened on the 75th anniversary of Edison's invention of the electric lamp. Florence Dam and Ward Tunnel were built in 1920. These facts are a sampling of what you discover when you take a pontoon ferry trip from Vermilion Resort across Edison Lake with High Sierra U.S. Forest Service ranger Rehta Gomez as narrator. On our trip earlier this month with 20 other people, we saw two very large Osprey nests in the tops of the tree snags. Each contained a baby bird, and near one nest an adult osprey was perched on a limb.

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