Crossing the South Fork Tuolumne River, along what is now Highway 120,
is a popular swimming and picnic area known as Rainbow Pool.

Cliff House 1894

John Cox, the toll collector, took advantage of the pool by building a cabin and taking up residence at the site until 1915, when the tolls were eliminated. In 1924, a brother and sister, seeing the possibilities of the site, leased the property, added to the Cox cabin, creating the "Fall Inn", later renamed the "Cliff House.

Please visit the Forest Service website for a great deal of historic background on the pool, bridges and Cliff House that used to stand above the pool. The Forest Service website has some wonderful old pictures of the site.