Recreation

The Big Pine region offers a real treat for the more experienced hiker.

Bishop is named for rancher Samuel Bishop, a First Sergeant with the Mariposa Battalion, who settled here in the 1860s, when the Owens Valley was being settled by cattlemen

Named after the famous shoot-out between the escaped convicts and the sheriff’s posse, this is a popular camping and fishing area.

This region encompasses Onion Valley, one of many popular steep canyon roads that lead into the Sierra Nevada.

The Inyo Mountains are a north-south trending desert mountain range between the Owens Valley to the west, and Death Valley National Park to the east.

For beautiful alpine scenery, you can’t miss June Lake. Hwy. 158 gives access to a chain of gorgeous lakes nestled in a steep horseshoe-shaped canyon.

Located at the southern end of the Sierra Nevada, the Kern Plateau is vast area of forest covered hills and mountains, punctuated by by green meadows.

In the early 1860s, the first settlers of Lone Pine gave the town its name because of a single, large pine tree at the confluence of Lone Pine and Tuttle Creeks.

The long valley Caldera is the massive, depressed area with Mammoth Lakes to the West, Crowley Lake to the Southeast and the Glass Mountains to the North.

This region houses Twin Lakes, and Mary, George, Mamie and Horseshoe Lakes, which are located along Lake Mary Road.

This region encompasses Mono Lake,  South Tufa, the Panum Craters, Mono Mills and Tioga Pass.

The Owens River Headwaters region encompasses 14,721-acre wilderness of the same name, designated by Congress on March 31, 2009.

Convenient to both Bishop and Mammoth areas, this region has great camping and fishing. 

The White Mountains are in arid desert and seem an unlikely place to find the oldest living trees, the bristlecone pines.