Mono County, California
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- Bennettville — Ghost Town · Mono County, CA
Failed 1880s silver-camp site of the Great Sierra Consolidated Silver Company on the high east side of Tioga Pass, just outside Yosemite’s east entrance. Pla…
- Benton Hot Springs — Hot Spring · Mono County, CA
Historic Mono County hot-spring settlement (Old Benton) west of modern Benton on the Benton Range fringe. Supply center for nearby mines in the 1860s–1880s; …
- Black Point Fissures (Mono Lake) — Geology · Mono County, CA
Pleistocene basalt volcanic cone on the north shore of Mono Lake riven by deep cooling fissures and caves—an off-trail geology hike in the Mono Basin Nationa…
- Bodie State Historic Park — Ghost Town · Mono County, CA
California's best-preserved gold-rush ghost town sits at ~8,400 ft in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra, maintained by State Parks in a deliberate state of …
- Conway Summit — Historic · Mono County, CA
Highest point on U.S. Highway 395 (~8,143 ft) between Bridgeport and Mono Lake, with a signed Mono Lake Scenic Viewpoint that opens a classic Eastern Sierra …
- Crowley Lake Columns — Natural · Mono County, CA
Thousands of bizarre stone pillars formed by volcanic ash erosion along the lake shore — one of the strangest formations in California. :contentReference[oai…
- Dog Town — Ghost Town · Mono County, CA
Site of the first major gold rush on the eastern slope of California’s Sierra Nevada (late 1850s), near the junction of Clearwater/Virginia and Dog Town Cree…
- Haystack / Crowley Overlook — Natural · Mono County, CA
Photographers and aviation spotters use high dirt spurs above Crowley Lake for Sierra backdrop views across the Long Valley caldera. There is no single offic…
- Hilltop Hot Springs (Pulky's Pool) — Hot Spring · Mono County, CA
A free, visitor-built rock-and-cement soaking tub perched on a low rise in the Long Valley Caldera east of Mammoth Lakes, with open views of the Eastern Sier…
- Hot Creek Geologic Site — Geology · Mono County, CA
Inyo National Forest day-use interpretive site on Hot Creek where boiling springs, fumaroles, and occasional geysering reveal the Long Valley Caldera hydroth…
- Inyo Crater Lakes — Geology · Mono County, CA
Pair of mid-14th-century phreatic (steam-blast) explosion craters on Deer Mountain above Mammoth Lakes—~600 ft wide and 100–200 ft deep, each holding a small…
- Lundy — Ghost Town · Mono County, CA
Defunct gold-camp community (formerly Mill Creek) at the west end of Lundy Lake in Lundy Canyon, northwest of Mono Lake. Grew after 1878 around the May Lundy…
- Mammoth Consolidated Mine — Historic · Mono County, CA
A short interpretive trail at the Coldwater Creek trailhead in the Mammoth Lakes Basin leads to Arch Mahan’s 1927–1933 gold-mining camp, preserved by Inyo Na…
- Masonic — Ghost Town · Mono County, CA
Gold camp about ten miles northeast of Bridgeport near the Nevada line, named by Freemason prospectors and also called Lorena. Upper, Middle, and Lower Town …
- Mono County Courthouse — Historic · Mono County, CA
Italianate county courthouse on Main Street in Bridgeport, completed in 1880 and still one of California’s oldest continuously operating county courthouses. …
- Mono Craters — Geology · Mono County, CA
Chain of young rhyolite and obsidian lava domes and craters south of Mono Lake in Inyo National Forest—one of the most recently active volcanic fields in the…
- Mono Mills — Historic · Mono County, CA
1880s lumber camp and sawmill that fed Bodie’s mines via the narrow-gauge Bodie & Benton Railway. At peak nearly 45,000 cords of wood per year left the Jeffr…
- Montgomery City — Ghost Town · Mono County, CA
Short-lived 1860s silver camp on the west slope of the White Mountains east of Benton, organized after rich float discoveries and the Montgomery Mining Distr…
- Obsidian Dome — Geology · Mono County, CA
Young rhyolite–obsidian lava dome in the Inyo volcanic chain west of US-395 north of Mammoth Lakes. Short walks from dirt-road parking reach glassy black flo…
- Panum Crater — Geology · Mono County, CA
Young rhyolite plug-dome volcano on the south shore of Mono Lake, formed only a few hundred years ago. A short trail climbs the pumice ring and plugs for clo…
- South Tufa Area (Mono Lake) — Natural · Mono County, CA
Primary public shoreline of Mono Lake Tufa State Natural Reserve: calcium-carbonate tufa towers rising from the hypersaline alkaline lake on the east side of…
- Travertine Hot Springs — Hot Spring · Mono County, CA
Public BLM mineral springs on a travertine ridge just southeast of Bridgeport, with several rock pools overlooking the high desert and Sierra. Easy dirt-road…
- White Mountain Peak — Natural · Mono County, CA
Highest summit of the White Mountains east of the Owens Valley—one of California’s premier high-desert alpine day hikes via the White Mountain Road and resea…
- Whitmore Tub Hot Springs — Hot Spring · Mono County, CA
Also called Rock Tub, this free BLM rock-lined soaking pool sits steps from parking on Whitmore Tubs Road in the Long Valley Caldera southeast of Mammoth Lak…