If you’d like to get a taste of winter snow, but you’d prefer to do it from the warmth of the indoors, the Grey Squirrel is the perfect place to cozy up for a couple days. Our cabins include kitchens, family rooms, dining tables, bedrooms… you’re not going to get the cooped up feeling of being in a hotel room, and every time you glance out the window you’ll see a blanket of the white stuff.
Big Bear has Blockbuster and Redbox locations where movies can be rented, and each of our cabins has a DVD player and new flatscreen TV. In the Village, the Big Bear Book & Bean has great used books — each of our cabins has a couch and armchair, along with a fireplace, and you can curl up for a good read. If you bring up some board games, the dining table in your cabin is the perfect place to play. If you forget, you can borrow a deck of cards from our front desk.
If you venture around our grounds and collect a few pine cones, you can bring them back into your cabin’s kitchen, pop them onto a baking sheet lined with foil, and bake them in a low 200 degree oven for about half an hour. This will melt the sap, eliminate any stickiness, and give the pine cones a lovely shine, making them the perfect souvenir. Check out ideas from the Pine Cone Lady to create crafts and more from your pine cones: http://PineConeLady.com/#axzz1k6i9JRox.
Even if you’re not a skier, even if you’re not big on cold weather, you can still enjoy the snow this winter season. Aside from everything we’ve mentioned, Big Bear also has two movie theaters and a bowling alley — lots of choices for all of the indoor-types out there!


























