A. P. Vivian stopped at Wawona in January, 1878, and wrote:
Although still called a “ranche,” this establishment has long ceased to be mainly concerned with agriculture. Clark himself exists no longer, at any rate in this locality; that individual sold his interests some years ago to Messrs. Washburn, who “run the stage,” and are now the “bosses of the route” between this and Merced. The ranche is now a small but comfortable and roomy inn, and during the tourists’ season is filled to overflowing.
Besides having constructed the twenty-five miles of capital road hence into the Yosemite Valley, Messrs. Washburn are again showing their enterprise by making a road direct to Merced, the object of which is to save thirty miles over the present Mariposa route.
By Ralph Anderson, NPS Badger Pass Ski House
By Ralph Anderson, NPS Ski Patrol at Work
By D. R. Brower Winter in the Yosemite High Sierra: Clark Range
By Ralph Anderson, NPS Snow Gaugers Entering Tuolumne Meadows