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Article #33: Lone Pine California Vacations

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Lone Pine, California doesn't look like Mount Whitney
much at first. It's a dusty desert town Lone Pine is the gateway to Mount
of a few thousand, on highway 395, on the Whitney. At 14,496 feet, it is the
eastern side of the Sierra Nevadas. There highest mountain in the lower 48 states.
might still be only one traffic light. So Whitney Portal Road starts in the center
what makes it a great vacation of town, and takes you 20 miles up to the
destination? trailhead and campground. The Whitney
The Lone Pine Film Festival Portal Trail goes to the top. It's a
Here are some of the movies filmed in strenuous hike, and the 22-mile round
this part of California: Gunga Din, How trip is best broken into two or three
The West Was Won, Star Trek, Tremors, days, with a night or two spent in the
Springfield Rifle, Joshua Tree, beautiful high country. By the way,
Gladiator, and Maverick. John Wayne, Gene you'll find snow up there most of the
Autry, Gary Cooper, Kirk Douglas, Robert year.
Mitchum, William Boyd, and dozens of The National Forest Service has
other movie stars have all spent time in designated much of the Inyo National
Lone Pine. Television series filmed here Forest and Sequoia National Park around
include The Lone Ranger, Have A Gun, the mountain as "The Whitney Zone." To
Bonanza, and Wagon Train. Spend much time hike within this area you need a permit,
in Lone Pine, and later, when you're which can be obtained from the
watching movies at home, you'll find inter-agency visitors center on Highway
yourself saying "Hey I've been there." 395, just south of Lone Pine. Plan ahead,
More than 200 movies, and numerous as permits are limited, and a seperate
television series have been filmed in and summit stamp may be required now to go to
around the area. The Lone Pine Film the peak of Whitney.
Festival, which is held in early October There is a campground behind downtown -
every year, features the classics, as to the west, and several nice motels in
well as more recent films. If you watch Lone Pine. The visitor's center south of
many movies, you can see familiar movie town has a lot of information on
scenery any time of the year. activities and sights in the area. The
The Alabama Hills reservoir south of town is good for
Drive a few minutes south of Lone Pine, fishing and swimming. The Beverly and Jim
turn west, and you'll find the Alabama Rogers Museum of Lone Pine Film History
Hills, one of the most unique geological will open soon. Actors have gun battles
areas you'll ever see. Rounded and smooth in the local bar just to entertain you
rocks are piled up in the most amazing (no charge).
formations. You may recognize some of the My wife and I love Lone Pine. Where else
scenery from old westerns. On the south in California, or anywhere else, can you
side of town, at the visitors center, you - all in one day - go swimming, watch a
can get free maps that will guide you to gunfight, explore caves and rock
rock arches, caves and other sights. formations in the desert, then drive up
You'll have to walk into mazes of rocks the mountain for a snowball fight?
to get to the better ones.






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