Attractions
Places to Visit
Visitors to Wonder Valley do not need to be part of a large group, event or gathering, as our facility also welcomes individuals wishing to take a break from life with a wonderful Leisure Traveler Getaway.
We have 10 "themed" cottages (shown below), all with front decks, suitable for 1-2 guests or a romantic couple. For families we have very spacious rooms with double sinks, walk-in closets and the ability to configure the beds in a variety of ways. Your stay always includes the use of our recreational facilities including boating and fishing on Dalton Pond, swimming pools, tennis, basketball and volleyball courts, a Games pavilion with ping pong, pool tables, air hockey and foosball, trampoline center, horseshoe pits and children’s playground. Available with advanced notice and an additional fee are guided horseback trail rides, paintball, archery, Ropes Challenge Course, waterslides, professional massage therapy and nearby golfing at Sherwood Golf Club.
Stay at Wonder Valley and as part of your package enjoy a "Hearty Country Continental" breakfast, served either in our beautiful Lakeshore Lodge or in one of our other more intimate dining rooms. Other meals are available with 24 hour notice.
Blue Oak Ranch includes rolling blue oak woodland, chaparral and the headwaters of Sycamore Creek.Sitting within the Tule River area, the nature preserve protects an important corridor of habitat between the foothills and higher elevation streamside areas for rare mammals, like the Pacific fisher and for songbirds like the rare Swainson's thrush and black swift as they migrate between their summer and winter ranges.
Please visit the Sequoia Riverlands Trust website for a map.
Note: Public access to Blue Oak Ranch is not currently permitted, but SRT is in the planning stages to open the nature preserve for visitor use, which will include opportunities for horseback riding on the land. Check our online calendar or sign up for our e-newsletter to receive news updates and learn about opportunities and public programs at Blue Oak Ranch.
Dry Creek Preserve is a 152-acre former gravel quarry located just northwest of Lemon Cove. This special nature preserve, now fully restored, is the first example of an ecologically-based aggregate mine reclamation in Tulare County. It is also home to SRT’s native plant nursery.The combination of biological and environmental conditions that give rise to the sycamore alluvial woodland community occurs only rarely. Thus, while the California sycamore is not an uncommon species, the sycamore alluvial woodland is only found in just 17 stands scattered across central California. The community at Dry Creek is of particular conservation value, ranked third in size and health of all the remaining stands.
Please visit the Sequoia Riverlands Trust website for a map.
Note: This nature preserve is not yet regularly open to the public, but we are in plans to open it for visitor use very soon. Check our online calendar or sign up for our e-newsletter to learn about public programs and special events at Dry Creek Preserve. Parking, an information kiosk, trails and restroom facilities are planned for the near future.
Homer Ranch protects 1,819 acres of working landscape along a mile stretch of beautiful Dry Creek in Lemon Cove, just northeast of Woodlake.The ranch is home to a significant portion of one of the largest, healthiest and last remaining sycamore alluvial woodlands in the world and extensive blue oak woodlands, which play an important role in the large, interdependent natural communities that sustain the Sierra foothills. Serving as a critical wildlife corridor for a variety of species such as resident and migratory birds, mule deer and mountain lion, the ranch provides an important link between Dry Creek and conserved land to the northeast.
Please visit the Sequoia Riverlands Trust website for a map.
This 725-acre preserve southeast of Visalia protects one of the largest remaining wetland prairie habitats in the San Joaquin Valley.The James K. Herbert Wetland Prairie Preserve is just a small piece of a once extensive wetland prairie. It provides a refuge for owls that live underground, toads that estivate (like hibernation) in the soil, whimbrels flocks that visit as they migrate between Argentina and Alaska, and flowers that bloom in bright displays of magenta, yellow, gold, violet, white and pink.
Please visit the Sequoia Riverlands Trust website for a map.
Note: This nature preserve is not yet regularly open to the public. Check our online calendar or sign up for our e-newsletter to learn about public programs and special events at James K. Herbert Wetland Prairie Preserve.
This 110-acre grassy hill scattered with rock outcrops protects two rare and beautiful wildflower species, the striped adobe lily (Fritillaria striata) and San Joaquin adobe sunburst (Pseudobahia peirsonii).The open grasslands and blue oak woodlands of the southern Sierra Nevada foothills provide critical habitat for these exceptional flowers at Lewis Hill Preserve. In 1994, the Hawkins family donated this property north of Porterville to the Kern River Research Center. Six years later, the title transferred to the Tule Oaks Land Trust, now a chapter of SRT.
Please visit the Sequoia Riverlands Trust website for a map.
Note: This nature preserve is not yet regularly open to the public. Check our online calendar or sign up for our e-newsletter to learn about public programs and special events at Lewis Hill Preserve. Look out for the annual spring wildflower walk, a unique guided tour of rare, regional flowers.
This non-profit theater company opened in June, 1957 with “Suds in Your Eyes.” It has since performed numerous plays and musicals. Having rented a number of different quarters, The Players searched for a permanent home. In 1976, the City of Visalia offered the company use of the Ice House building – a huge, empty brick building constructed in the 1920s. After months of construction through donations of time, materials and money, the building was transformed into the comfortable 150-seat theater in use today.This non-profit theater company opened in June, 1957 with “Suds in Your Eyes.” It has since performed numerous plays and musicals. Having rented a number of different quarters, The Players searched for a permanent home. In 1976, the City of Visalia offered the company use of the Ice House building – a huge, empty brick building constructed in the 1920s. After months of construction through donations of time, materials and money, the building was transformed into the comfortable 150-seat theater in use today.
