The key-note of the place is comfort.

Under its present management a large number of wild New England flowers have been planted to add their beauty to that of the native California flower, and each year, about the third week in July, the guests wander over the sun-kissed slopes, climb the snowy heights and ramble through the shady woods gathering Sierran flowers of every hue, form and variety for an annual flower show.

This is one of the distinctive features of the life at Deer Park Inn.
It is an interesting fact here to notice that, when Miss Parsons, chief author of _Flowers of California_, was preparing that volume, she found such a wealth of mountain flora in the Deer Park region that she spent about as many weeks as she had planned for days.
Other botanists have found it equally productive.
To those who come early in the season tobogganing and snow shoeing are not unusual experiences.

The shady sides of the mountains offer these winter sports as late as June and early July, and many Californians who have never enjoyed the frolic of snow-balling come here to gain their first experience in this common eastern enjoyment.
Elsewhere I have referred to the many evidences of glacial action found about a mile above Deer Park Inn.

Still further up the canyon, on the trail going to Five Lakes, are interesting deposits of volcanic rock--andeside--so that these two geological phenomena may be studied close at hand.
Having its own rich meadows on Bear Creek, the Deer Park Spring tables are always supplied with good milk and cream from its own dairies, while fresh fruit and vegetables are supplied daily.