Walker River Lodge, Bridgeport

We have stayed here numerous times since 1993, and looked forward to this visit, but we paid over $150 w/AAA for a room with no heat, 9 channels on TV, sway-backed beds, missing weatherstripping. After complaining about the complete lack of heat, nothing was done to remedy the condition, even though the temp. was in the low 20s in the morning. The great restaurant across the hwy. was the only positive aspect of the visit.

The rate list posted on the door of our room (required by law) gave Walker River Lodges rates for 1999-2000. I think that must have been the last time the place was actually cared for. We paid $117.00 per night and the room was gross. The shower curtain was frayed and hung in strings at the bottom. There were plastic, faded, and broken flowers in a dime store vase on the dirty table. An oversized stuffed chair dominated one corner; we covered it with beach towels before we would touch it because it was filthy. The first morning we woke there, we went to the office for coffee (we had seen a pot in the lobby when we checked in) but the office was closed and it was after 8am. We made a homemade "Do not disturb" sign as there was not one in our room, we did not want or require room service, and we went to town to purchase a few things at a market. There were two markets in Bridgeport and we walked out of both empty handed as they were so awfully over priced. You expect to pay more in that area, but the prices they were trying to get were criminal. $14.00 for a case of drinking water, $6.00 for a pack of cheap paper plates! We had a great time at Mono Lake and the surrounding areas, but all we got in Bridgeport was an unraveling bedspread, a terribly uncomfortable bed, all of the window coverings were off the curtain rings, no cell phone service, no wireless access online, no local information was provided, and the final touch was the housekeeping staff singing loudly in Spanish, laughing raucously, and yelling across the parking lot every morning around 7:30am. We will not return to Walker River Lodge or Bridgeport. However, there was one bright spot in Bridgeport. Directly across the street from our motel we discovered the “Hays Street Café”, GREAT FOOD, GREAT SERVICE AND GOOD PEOPLE. If you are ever passing through Bridgeport, do check out the Hays Street Café!

I have wonderful memories of the Walker River Lodge. My parents and their friends would always stay at the lodge a couple nights right after their backpacking trips and built a good relationship with the owners, who always remembered us when we went back. When I was a kid we would always stay there and take vacations to Yosemite with the plan to stay a few days in Bridgeport. It's set in a beautiful town, right on the river, close to everything and has a wonderful staff. I definitely recommend staying here :)

Every October for the past 5 years, my wife & I take a trip over Tioga Pass, through Yosemite NP, and stay 1-2 nights at the WRL. We always request a room on the side with the river behind the room and a well kept lawn area. The room is always clean and the place is quiet at night. Love breakfast across the street at Hays Restaurant. We will keep going back as we look forward to this fall trip every year.

Convenient parking in front of rooms, nice clean rooms, across street from the Hays Street Cafe (best breakfast in the Eastern Sierras). Relatively quiet given location on 395 going through Bridgeport. Pleasant, helpful staff with relative in CHP for road conditions background info. Didn't use pool or spa; both appear attractive.

We have celebrated the July 4th holidays (it goes on for days!) in Bridgeport for the last 10 years and have always stayed at the WRL. It is a great place to stay, close to everything, with friendly and accomodating people at the Lodge.

Easy parking and unit access. Very nice yard and barbeque area on the Walker River but the mosquitoes ate us up! Good fish claining and storing ammenities. Walk to good restaraunts. We will return.

We stayed here on a motorcycle journey, so the spa was nice. It's also right by the river, and they have places to read where you can hear the water running.