An intimate wedding venue under hundred-year-old pines
Storybook cabins, old-growth forest, and lights strung through the branches, five minutes from Lake Arrowhead. Small enough that everyone you love stays together, from the first look to the last song.
You will remember the light.
It comes down through a hundred feet of pine all afternoon, turns gold somewhere around six, and hands over to the string lights before anyone notices the change.
Somewhere in that hour, every person you invited is standing in the same clearing, under the same trees, and not one of them is checking the time.
Drive up far enough and the clouds are underneath you
The park has been a working part of this mountain since the logging years — a camp, then a resort, then somewhere people drove up to for a week at a time. The cabins from those years are still standing, and so are the trees they were built around.
You are not renting a room and then spending a second budget making it look like something. You are booking a place that already looks like this.
A hundred years under the same trees
Early 1900sWhat the loggers left
Cabins go up among the oldest trees on the mountain, and the camp that becomes Willow Woods takes shape under them.
1928Forest of the Sky becomes Skyforest
A post office opens up here. The community drops the longer name it had used for itself and takes the one it still carries.
Mid-centurySkyforest Resort
The property runs year round as a resort under the cartoonist Frank Adams — cabins by the day or the week, five minutes from Lake Arrowhead.
The resort yearsGuests drive up from the city
Seventy-five miles east of Los Angeles, the cabins fill every summer with people who came for the quiet and the cold air.
TodayWillow Woods Park
The same trees, the same cabins, and your table set beneath them.
One forest venue near Lake Arrowhead, two kinds of day
Ceremonies beneath the pines
Dinners, retreats, and milestones
Katie has done this a few hundred times
“We worked with Katie from first meeting all the way through, and she was a big part of what sold us on the location.”
“Willow Woods was all I could ever want as a bride because it felt like an enchanted forest from a storybook. I loved the rustic and whimsical aesthetic, the cute 1920s cabins, the woodsy outdoors, and the pizza!”
“The night was beyond anything we could have imagined. Our photos look like they are straight out of a Pinterest board, and we will be dreaming about this day for the rest of our lives.”
Chelsea D.Verified · Yelp“The venue was gorgeous, the food was incredible, the service was 5 star first class, and the ambiance was magical. We could not have been happier with our experience.”
John G.Verified · Yelp“Willow Woods Park is such a unique and special venue. It's perfect for anyone looking for an intimate outdoor experience.”
Skyleigh BreedenVerified · Google
Two packages, and the difference is dinner
- How many
30 to 80 guests
The size the park was built for, not the size it tolerates. A hundred is the hard ceiling.
- How much
One price per guest
The park, the set-up, the coordination, and the clean-up in a single number. No separate site fee, and nothing charged for guests who do not come.
- Where
Skyforest, CA
5 minutes from Lake Arrowhead, 75 miles east of Los Angeles, and 5,741 feet up.
- When
May through October
The months the mountain is at its best, and the weekends that go first. The park is open the rest of the year, and quieter.
Questions couples ask about weddings
- Willow Woods Park address
- Willow Woods Park28561 State Hwy 18Skyforest, CA 92385
Five minutes from Lake Arrowhead
- Phone number
- (909) 337-7137
Walk the grounds before you decide
Tours run about an hour and are by appointment. Bring whoever is helping you plan, and we will show you where everything would actually happen. Call (909) 337-7137 if that is faster.
