Gravel Range Lodge No. 59 received dispensation on June 29, 1854, and its charter on May 4, 1855, with an original membership of 28. Its first meetings were held over a store that was later destroyed by fire, and three other buildings were also lost to fires before the present building was completed in 1948. Forest Lodge No. 66 was consolidated with Gravel Range in 1955, and both had celebrated 100 years of Masonry in 1954. In 2002, Gravel Range Lodge and Mtn. Shade Lodge of Downieville consolidated and became Mtn. Range No. 18.