"SUMMER GETAWAYS SPECIAL!" 40% Off ANY Midweek Stay
25% Off ANY 2-Day Weekend Stay
Summer Getaways Special good to
August 31 based on standard room rates and cannot be
combined with other offers or discounts. Midweek
discount offered Sunday night to Thursday night. Holiday weekends are excluded and a
two-night stay required on all other weekends. Check our BOOK ONLINEservice for date availability,
email us or call us
at 1-866-795-8999 for more information.
We've been voted the Best B&B in Calaveras County for 2008
by the readers of the Union Democrat newspaper that is based in
Sonora, with Tuolumne and Calaveras County editions.
We were honored in 2007 with the same award, so our thanks
again go the Union Democrat and its readers. We really
appreciate local support!
Read
guest reviews on Trip Advisor
We're also part of Trip Advisor, and invite
our guests to provide comments on their stay at the Black Bear
Inn. Please click on the graphic to the right to review those comments.
Beautiful Sequoias, amazing scenery
and the peacefulness of the heavens full of stars!
You can experience all
this and more year round at the only Bed & Breakfast in Arnold,
California.
The Black Bear Inn is a
5,200 square foot timber frame constructed inn on 1.3 acres in a
park-like setting that was completed in 2002.
For more construction information, please visit our Contact Us page.
Our five guest rooms
have private baths, king beds, fireplaces, radiant heating and cooling,
satellite television, and we include a family style breakfast.
Take a look
at the
rooms.
Outdoors we offer a covered spa for year round
relaxation, a large patio and a group event area with lawn that's
perfect for weddings and receptions.
We are close to
restaurants, antique shops, galleries, apparel and gift shops, golfing,
skiing, and wineries and offer a year-round destination, an ideal
mountain getaway.
Please give us a call
or email us
for more details on how to recharge your batteries with a Sierra
Getaway to the Arnold Black Bear Inn!
We've got great ideas for every
season!
Please explore and enjoy our website and then plan
your stay at the Black Bear Inn.
- Kirk & Doreen Swanson, Innkeepers
We're located at
the gateway to great recreation.
Zip Lines & Great Wines
Our
region is noted for spectacular natural features and now zip lines
provide a great new perspective.
The zip
lines shown are at Moaning Cavern near Murphys, and they offer an adrenaline-producing aerial traverse.
The perfect spot
for going wine tasting, shopping,
entertainment and enjoying the High Sierra.
At 4,000 feet, you head down
the mountain from the Inn for wine-tasting, Calaveras Big Trees,
entertainment, and great shopping, and head up Highway 4 to explore and
enjoy high country recreation and scenery.
On the right menu, click on
Calaveras Big Trees,
and Ebbetts Pass Scenic Byway graphics -- or visit our
Experiences page
to learn more about our region's year-round activities!
Spectacular Highway
4 is a National Scenic Byway
Arnold is the gateway to the new
Ebbetts Pass Scenic
Byway (EPSB).
Find out more
about the journey that begins in
Arnold and other great events and activities in our region.
Spectacular scenery and recreational opportunities stretch east from
Arnold to Bear Valley, across Ebbetts Pass at 8,730 feet, and descend to
meet with Highway 89 at picturesque Markleeville.
The EPSB
offers the most wilderness scenery of any Scenic
Byway in California.
Download a
brochure about the EPSB with a map and points of interest.
Click on the photo of Silver Creek
Canyon (copyright 2005 by Dick James) for images from excellent local photographers of the EPSB on the US Department of Transportation
Scenic Byways website. Look on the left side of the website for
"Photos."
setting that was completed in 2002.
For more construction information, please visit our 
