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Exciting New Venues Offer Visitors More Ways to Experience Tuolumne County

May 14, 2025

Indigeny Reserve Ciderworks and Distillery is a premier producer of inspired, organic, and deliciously new-generation hard ciders and apple brandy made with apples from the onsite organic apple ranch.  Indigeny operates on a full model of sustainability.  Tours, tastings and shopping are all available at Indigeny Reserve.

 

Hurst Ranch Chuckwagon BBQ offers a fun, family style country BBQ and dinner show, complete with miniature train rides. The BBQ takes place during the summer months. Year-round reasons to visit include purchasing ranch products like olive oil, wine, beef and ranch supplies. 

 

The beautiful and vast Mother Lode Ranch rounds out the new venues.  Guests can rent out the huge barn, complete with a built in bar, for events of all kinds. Also available are a variety of wagons for hire for every occasion, including weddings, reunions, corporate events and more.    Arrangements can be made for a wagon ride around the over 1,000-acre ranch. 

 

The Hotel at Black Oak Casino Resort is the area's newest venue having opened in May 2013.  This exquisite new hotel property has 148 rooms including 16 Junior and Deluxe Suites.  The entire hotel is non-smoking.  With 6,000 feet of meeting space, this will be an ideal location for meetings, conferences and corporate retreats.  Weddings, reunions and other special celebrations can all be had, indoors or out, at the new Hotel at Black Oak Casino Resort

 

 

Tuolumne County is located in California's Gold Country and High Sierra regions.  Over 58% of Yosemite National Park lies within the borders of Tuolumne County.  Just a two hour drive south of Sacramento, east of San Francisco and north of Yosemite Valley, Tuolumne County is easily accessible from all point on the compass.

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