Our story

A logging camp that never stopped being used

Willow Woods Park has been standing above Lake Arrowhead since 1923. It has been a logging camp, a resort, and a honeymoon stop, and it is now a venue — but the trees and the cabins have stayed put through all of it.

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Tables set among the pines and cabins at Willow Woods Park
Our history

People have been falling for this mountain for over a century

The loggers put their cabins up among the oldest trees. The resort years filled it every summer with people who drove seventy-five miles for the quiet and the cold air. A century on, the drive is the same and so is the air, and couples come up for what everyone before them came up for.
  1. Cabins standing among tall pines in the Skyforest area in the early 1900s
    Early 1900s

    What the loggers left

    Cabins go up among the oldest trees on the mountain, and the camp that becomes Willow Woods takes shape under them.

  2. The reverse of a Skyforest Resort postcard, showing a route map and reservation details
    1928

    Forest of the Sky becomes Skyforest

    A post office opens up here. The community drops the longer name it had used for itself and takes the one it still carries.

  3. A linen postcard of the Rock Cabin at Skyforest Resort, Skyforest, California
    Mid-century

    Skyforest Resort

    The property runs year round as a resort under the cartoonist Frank Adams — cabins by the day or the week, five minutes from Lake Arrowhead.

  4. Cars from the 1950s parked outside the cabins at Skyforest
    The resort years

    Guests drive up from the city

    Seventy-five miles east of Los Angeles, the cabins fill every summer with people who came for the quiet and the cold air.

  5. Tables set for a celebration among the pines and cabins at Willow Woods Park today
    Today

    Willow Woods Park

    The same trees, the same cabins, and your table set beneath them.

The setting

Old growth, and a mile of altitude

The park sits at 5,741 feet among fir, cedar, pine, and oak — high enough that the coastal fog usually stops below the road on the way up.
Historic details and towering trees at Willow Woods Park

Sunlight comes through the canopy rather than over it, which is why photographs taken here look the way they do. The gardens were planted into the spaces the logging left behind, and the log cabins that remain are the ones built when the camp was working.

None of it has been rebuilt to look old. It is old, and it has been kept in use — which is a different thing, and it shows.

A wide view of Willow Woods Park set among towering pines
Skyforest, California
Who runs it now

Ten years of the same family

The park has been in the same hands for over a decade, and those hands also run LouEddie's — the pizza restaurant fifty steps across the property, where the food at every wedding and event here comes from.

It is not a venue company with a catering contract and a booking portal. It is a family, a mountain, and a wood-fired oven, with a coordinator called Katie who has run more weddings under these trees than anyone cares to count.

That is the reason the reviews read the way they do, and it is the part of the place a photograph cannot show you.

Come see it

Walk the grounds and see how much of it is still here

If the place sounds like the right setting for your wedding or private event, we would rather show you than describe it.

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Lanterns carried through the trees at Willow Woods Park after dark