Our Post Office - please don't send any elephants!

The Vermilion Valley Resort offers a Resupply Package Service for hikers traveling the John Muir Trail / Pacific Crest Trail. Packages can be mailed either U.P.S. or U.S. Mail. 

Help us reduce YOUR cost by following the simple instructions below.  Please understand that not following the instructions could result in additional charges, or worse - your resupply being returned!

Packaging Rules

1. Packages are limited to 25 pounds each
2. Your name and Estimated Arrival Date must be clearly visible on 4 sides of your package. 
3. You may use either a box, or a bucket to send your package, as long as it doesn't exceed 25 pounds.

Please send your package via United Parcel Service (UPS), which is the preferred method for sending your resupply. 

If you wish to use the US Postal Service, please click here for the proper address.

For packages sent via UPS ONLY, the address is:

Vermilion Valley Resort c/o Rancheria Garage 62311 Huntington Lake Road Lakeshore, Ca. 93634

Resupply Handling Fees

There is a $18.00 fee for pickup and storage of each package, collected at the end of your visit.

There is a $10.00 charge PLUS postage per item to mail packages of excess items home from VVR.

Your unclaimed package can be returned to you for $25 plus any postage.  Simply call us with a credit card number, or send a check to cover the fees.

Timing your Resupply Package

VVR at Edison Lake is approximately two hours from the nearest U.S. Post Office or the U.P.S. drop point. Because of this we only pickup packages once or twice a week. Keep this in mind when planning your package arrival date. 

Please be sure that you send your package to arrive 10-14 days before YOU arrive!

If you must send it within 2 weeks of you arrival, be sure to send it via UPS to ensure that it will arrive in time.

Hiker Resupply boxes can be sent for pick-up between May 15th and Oct 15th every year.

Please note:  Packages are limited to 25 pounds each. Any packages left or not picked up by the specified date, will be held 30 days unless special arrangements are made. After that time period, we place the food in a hikers box for other hikers in need of extra supplies at no charge.

Please put your name and expected arrival date on all sides of the box - it helps us store your box propery, and then identify it quickly once you arrive!

Hiker Barrel Rules:

We place two 55 gallon drums outside the store for hikers to place or donate their excess food and supplies. We have a separate RubberMaid container located next to the barrels for fuels and non-food items. We ask that the hikers police themselves and others by keeping these barrels free of spoiled or unedible foods etc. NOTE: Food placed in these barrels are for thru-hikers use only, not for the general public and contents in these barrels “are never taken and placed in the store for resale”.

Unclaimed Hiker Resupply box contents at our discretion will be placed in the Hiker Barrels or sold in the store to offset transportation, handling and storage costs. If for some reason you are unable to pick-up your box and don’t wish to have it returned to you and you would like all the contents of your unclaimed box to go into the hiker barrel, simply call us with a credit card, pay the $20.00 and we will gladly put all the contents into the Hiker barrels.