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Dorrington is an unincorporated census-designated place in Calaveras County, set along State Route 4 in the Sierra Nevada foothills on the way to Ebbetts Pass.

Dorrington had a population of 519 at the 2020 census, down from 609 in 2010 and 727 in 2000.

Dorrington covers about 3.7 square miles, and its 609 residents at the 2010 census lived in just 294 households, an average of only about two people per home.

Dorrington was known as Cold Spring Ranch, after an icy spring on the property, until 1902.

John and Rebekah Gardner bought the Cold Spring Ranch in 1868, and the community's name is Rebekah Gardner's maiden name, adopted when a post office was established there in 1902.

In the late 1800s and early 1900s Dorrington was a historic stopping place and toll station on the Big Trees-Carson Valley toll road between Murphys and Ebbetts Pass, serving as a resort stop for visitors to the giant sequoias of what is now Calaveras Big Trees State Park.

The present Dorrington Hotel was built in the early 1880s after the community's first hotel burned down.

Dorrington is home to the second-largest sugar pine in the world, a giant measuring 32 feet in circumference and 220 feet tall.

Logging was a major industry in the Dorrington area from the late 1800s through the 1940s.