Strawberry CDP (Tuolumne County), CA

Strawberry is a Tuolumne County census-designated place along State Route 108 in the high Sierra, about ten miles northeast of Long Barn. At roughly 5,325 feet, it is a small mountain settlement—about half a square mile and 87 residents in the 2020 census—but the housing count tells the fuller story: 283 units, most used seasonally. Cabins, lodges, and summer homes sit among conifers and mountain roads, with Pinecrest and the upper Highway 108 corridor nearby. A post office opened in 1949 and later closed, leaving the community’s identity tied more to the route, resort properties, and surrounding forest than to a daily mail stop.

The local map includes the South Fork Stanislaus River, Strawberry Store, Strawberry Inn, and the roads leading toward Pinecrest Lake and the Sonora-Mono corridor. Tuolumne County’s emergency-planning map marks Strawberry’s local streets, county routes, forest routes, and nearby fire-service geography, which is a useful reminder that access is part of life here. Weather and seasonal road conditions can change how the place connects to the lower foothills. Strawberry is not a conventional town with a broad commercial grid; it is a high-elevation community where the highway, the cabins, the river, and the Sierra setting all meet in a very small footprint.