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July 21, 2019

Overview

Hype:

An easy road-walking hike to a historic cabing and soda spring.

Trail Condition: Class 1 (Trail is either paved or gravel. Navigation skills are not needed because there is only one trail or because there are signs. Elevation gains are gradual or there are stairs.)

Time: 20-45 minutes

Length: 1.2 miles one way or round trip

Elevation Gain: Negligible

Fees: Park Entrance

Recommended Ages:

	0-3
	4-11
	12-19
	20-49
	50-69
	70+

Recommended Months to Visit:

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Features:

National Register of Historic Places
No Drinking Water
Rivers and Streams
Mountains
Pioneer
Displays
Marked Trails
No Restrooms
Road Access is Paved
Access Road is 2WD Accessible
Hiking Trails
Wildflowers and Vegitation
Wildlife and Birding

Links: https://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/tmhikes.htm

Getting There

Navigate to 37.877413, -119.353376.

Park at the Lembert Dome parking area.

Route

Soda Springs

Soda Springs is in Tuolumne Meadows, Yosemite National Park, and is almost but not quite synonymous with Soda Springs Cabin, which is a cabin, built over the springs. They are mineral springs. Drinking the water is not advised.

Soda Springs Cabin

The Soda Springs Cabin is a historic structure in Yosemite National Park in the US, built over Soda Springs. It was built around the year 1889 by John Baptist Lembert, the first European settler on the Tuolumne Meadows area of Yosemite. Lembert had filed a claim to 160 acres in Tuolumne Meadows in 1885 after spending three summers in the area with a flock of angora goats. He built a log cabin directly over the largest soda spring in the area. Although the property was within the park boundaries, Lembert received a patent to the property in 1895. Lembert's cabin was built along the Great Sierra Wagon Road over the Sierra Nevada.

The ruins of the cabin are located directly over the gaseous spring and are thought to have functioned as a spring-house, rather than as a dwelling, preventing livestock from fouling the spring. The cabin measures 9 feet by 11 feet. Its walls extend to about 7 feet. There is no roof. The cabin had no windows and one door in the north side. The logs are laid with V-notched joints.

The cabin was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 19, 1979.

Parsons Memorial Lodge

The Parsons Memorial Lodge is a small building built in 1915 by the Sierra Club at the northern end of Tuolumne Meadows of Yosemite National Park. It was one of the earliest structures built of stone in a national park.

Historic Parsons Memorial Lodge offers exhibits from June through October in most years.

The lodge was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1987.