Lone Pine, California

Hwy 395 - Owens Valley

1872 Earthquake - Alabama Hills - Manzanar

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What's in Lone Pine?
(1) Lone Pine 1872 Earthquake (a) Scarp/Fault (b) Grave - Historical Marker
(2) Alabama Hills (a) Movie Road (b) Horeshoe Meadow Road (c) Movie Room
(3) Independence (a) Manzanar (b) Mt Whitney Fish Hatchery
Other Points of Interest
(4) Fossil Falls (4.9 miles south of Coso Junction south past Olancha) & Red Hill
(5) Sierra Nevada (a) Mount Whitney (b) Whitney Portal
(6) Owens Lake (a) Bartlett boron works (b) Crystal Geyser (c) Cartago 1873 port
      (d) Cerro Gordo silver mine (e) Keeler & Swansea (f) Hwy 190 to Olancha
(7) Big Pine (a) Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest (slideshow)

Lone Pine 1872 Earthquake Fault/Scarp

Whitney Portal Road
LA Aqueduct
Lone Pine Creek?
Turnout (0.7 mi)

Aerial Photo
looking west

Sally
Lone Pine Fault
minor fracture?

rock above
with drill holes

Alabama Hills - Movie Road

Grinding Arrasta
built for a movie
suitable for printing!

Owens Lake
Lone Pine
Alabama Hills

Mt Whitney too!
Looking for #4
Marker #2

foreground
Marker #8
side view

Manzanar

Sentry Entrance
Guard Tower
2004 Sign
1973 Plaque

Camp Model
Block
Barracks Exhibit
Racism Exhibit

Visitors Center
10,000 Names
442nd - WWII
Sadao Munemori

Hospital Pond
Upstream View
Cemetery Entrance
3 remain

Fossil Falls & Red Hill

In the Falls
Looking Downstream

Looking Down
Basalt Closeup

Red Hill
10,000 years old
cinder cone

2nd Falls
downstream to
Little Lake

Notes
The Visitor's Center (south of town) and your motel will have maps.
Best Western Frontier is a good motel. Dow Villa is also supposed to be good.
High Sierra Cafe is good if not fast. McDonald's is fast!
Lee's (Chevron gas station) will make you a Deli sandwich to go.
Links and References
Lone Pine Chamber of Commerce
Webshots Community - Alabama Hills
Hollywood's Old West Movie Locations - Alabama Hills, Lone Pine
Geology of the Alabama Hills - thesis
Manzanar National Historic Site - NPS
Echoes of Manzanar
Olancha & Cartago
Cerro Gordo Mine / Digital-Desert.com
Bessie Brady steamer - OwensValleyHistory.com
Owens Lake
LA Aqueduct - UCLA 1996 Geology Field Trip
Geology Underfoot in Death Valley and Owens Valley - Robert Sharp & Allen Glazner
  
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April 6, 2004 California Drives