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Post by flanz on Mar 21, 2019 18:12:06 GMT
... about between L.A. and Lone Pine?
I've never been to the area but a couple of vans full of friends and I are heading there to tour the camp next weekend.
Our Saturday is filled with travel and touring Manzanar, though a restaurant recommendation in Lone Pine area would be appreciated. We have some time on our way home on Sunday to stop and visit a spot or two.
Thanks in advance!
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Post by flanz on Mar 21, 2019 21:32:32 GMT
anyone?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2019 21:39:58 GMT
I've never been to manzanar, but I looked on trip advisor and saw several things around there. I'm sure you've already looked there, though.
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Post by scrapperal on Mar 21, 2019 21:44:48 GMT
I was going to suggest Death Valley, but that's even farther.
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Post by 2marbles on Mar 21, 2019 22:27:25 GMT
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Post by silverlining on Mar 21, 2019 23:48:15 GMT
Climb Mount Whitney!!  Or drive to Whitney Portal Campground, 12 miles (23 minutes)from Lone Pine, and you'll be at over 8,000 feet. You could have a picnic there and find a great view of the highest mountain in the contiguous US. Depending on the health of the members of your group, you could take a short hike from there. |
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Post by silverlining on Mar 21, 2019 23:56:47 GMT
On your way from LA, I think you'll be going right through Red Rock Canyon State Park, which I've read is a great place to see desert wildflowers, and next weekend should be spectacular if it's not raining again.
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Post by katlady on Mar 22, 2019 0:07:28 GMT
On your way from LA, I think you'll be going right through Red Rock Canyon State Park, which I've read is a great place to see desert wildflowers, and next weekend should be spectacular if it's not raining again. Red Rock Canyon is on the Nevada side of the mountains. It is right outside of Las Vegas. You won’t drive through it if you are going from LA to Lone Pine. |
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Post by 2marbles on Mar 22, 2019 0:17:00 GMT
There actually is this part of Red Rock Canyon coming down the CA side. I drove through it every year for 18 years going home from Idaho. My kids wouldn't pee in the hole in the ground bathrooms there.  Red Rock Canyon State Park |
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Post by katlady on Mar 22, 2019 0:23:59 GMT
There actually is this part of Red Rock Canyon coming down the CA side. I drove through it every year for 18 years going home from Idaho. My kids wouldn't pee in the hole in the ground bathrooms there. Red Rock Canyon State Parkcool! I didn’t know Calif. had one too! ETA - I see my confusion. The one in Calif is a state park and the one in Nevada is a national park. |
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Post by silverlining on Mar 22, 2019 0:28:50 GMT
I was talking about the CA one, along Fwy 14 between LA and Lone Pine: "Red Rock Canyon State Park features scenic desert cliffs, buttes and spectacular rock formations. The park is located where the southernmost tip of the Sierra Nevada converges with the El Paso Mountains. Each tributary canyon is unique, with vivid colors. After wet winters, the park's floral displays are notable." "Providing several unique, dramatic areas, and close to Los Angeles, since the 1930s Hollywood has frequently filmed at Red Rock Canyon, including motion pictures, television series, advertisements, and music videos. Among the many westerns filmed there were The Big Country and The Outlaw, and such diverse movies as Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970), Buck Rogers (serial), Capricorn One The Mummy, Zorro Rides Again, Jurassic Park, I'll Be Home for Christmas, Missile to the Moon, The Car, Westworld, Savages, and TV series Airwolf , Galactica 1980, Lost in Space and The Twilight Zone . 40 Guns to Apache Pass, the last film of Audie Murphy, was shot there in 1966." Copied from Wikipedia  |
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Post by silverlining on Mar 22, 2019 0:33:26 GMT
Haha apparently Red Rock Canyon is the John Smith of canyons. Flanz be careful setting your GPS!
Red Rock Canyon may refer to:
Canyons
Red Rock Canyon; Cochise County, Arizona
Red Rock Canyon; Maricopa County, Arizona
Red Rock Canyon; Imperial County, California
Red Rock Canyon; Lassen County, California
Red Rock Canyon; Los Angeles County, California
Red Rock Canyon; Mono County, California
Red Rock Canyon; San Luis Obispo County, California
Red Rock Canyon; Orange County, California (within Limestone Canyon & Whiting Ranch Wilderness Park)
Red Rock Canyon; El Paso County, Colorado
Red Rock Canyon; La Plata County, Colorado
Red Rock Canyon; Las Animas County, Colorado
Red Rock Canyon; Moffat County, Colorado
Red Rock Canyon; Montrose County, Colorado
Left Fork Red Rock Canyon; Rio Blanco County, Colorado
Middle Fork Red Rock Canyon; Rio Blanco County, Colorado
Red Rock Canyon; Rio Blanco County, Colorado
Red Rock Canyon; Saguache County, Colorado
Red Rock Canyon; Bear Lake County, Idaho
Red Rock Canyon; Clark County, Nevada: in Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area
Redrock Canyon; Lander County, Nevada
Red Rock Canyon; Nye County, Nevada
Red Rock Canyon; Storey County, Nevada
Red Rock Canyon; Washoe County, Nevada
Red Rock Canyon; White Pine County, Nevada
Redrock Canyon; Grant County, New Mexico
Red Rock Canyon; Jackson County, Oregon
Red Rock Canyon; Malheur County, Oregon
Red Rock Canyon; Burnet County, Texas
Red Rock Canyon; Summit County, Utah
Parks
Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, Clark County, Nevada
Red Rock Canyon Open Space, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Red Rock Canyon State Park (California), Kern County, California
Red Rock Canyon State Park (Oklahoma), Caddo County, Oklahoma
Red Rock State Park (Arizona), Sedona, Arizona
Disambiguation icon This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name.
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Post by 2marbles on Mar 22, 2019 0:36:01 GMT
dude!
that's kind of hilarious! Thanks parks system!
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Post by Lexica on Mar 22, 2019 0:57:13 GMT
My son and I used to go to the Mt. Whitney Fish Hatchery to look around and feed the fish. I took him camping in that area frequently. He was very big on fishing.
There used to be a bakery in one of those little towns that made the best sheepherders bread. This was many years ago, but I had been going there for over 20 years so it may still be there. Many of the other towns carried their bread too.
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Post by katlady on Mar 22, 2019 0:59:39 GMT
My son and I used to go to the Mt. Whitney Fish Hatchery to look around and feed the fish. I took him camping in that area frequently. He was very big on fishing. There used to be a bakery in one of those little towns that made the best sheepherders bread. This was many years ago, but I had been going there for over 20 years so it may still be there. Many of the other towns carried their bread too. Schat’s Bakery? There is one in Mammoth and one in Bishop. ETA - Mammoth is a bit far from Lone Pine and traffic up there might be heavy on a weekend since there is still a lot of good skiing. |
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Post by flanz on Mar 22, 2019 3:48:34 GMT
Climb Mount Whitney!! Or drive to Whitney Portal Campground, 12 miles (23 minutes)from Lone Pine, and you'll be at over 8,000 feet. You could have a picnic there and find a great view of the highest mountain in the contiguous US. Depending on the health of the members of your group, you could take a short hike from there. The Campground sounds like a possibility. Thanks! We have some older folks in the group... not sure if a short hike would work for them, but the picnic should! |
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Post by flanz on Mar 22, 2019 3:49:36 GMT
On your way from LA, I think you'll be going right through Red Rock Canyon State Park, which I've read is a great place to see desert wildflowers, and next weekend should be spectacular if it's not raining again. The super bloom is crazy this year, from what I hear. I'm one of those who is terribly allergic to most every flower... but if we might see some awesome sites along the way. Thanks for mentioning it. |
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Post by flanz on Mar 22, 2019 3:50:35 GMT
I was talking about the CA one, along Fwy 14 between LA and Lone Pine: "Red Rock Canyon State Park features scenic desert cliffs, buttes and spectacular rock formations. The park is located where the southernmost tip of the Sierra Nevada converges with the El Paso Mountains. Each tributary canyon is unique, with vivid colors. After wet winters, the park's floral displays are notable." "Providing several unique, dramatic areas, and close to Los Angeles, since the 1930s Hollywood has frequently filmed at Red Rock Canyon, including motion pictures, television series, advertisements, and music videos. Among the many westerns filmed there were The Big Country and The Outlaw, and such diverse movies as Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970), Buck Rogers (serial), Capricorn One The Mummy, Zorro Rides Again, Jurassic Park, I'll Be Home for Christmas, Missile to the Moon, The Car, Westworld, Savages, and TV series Airwolf , Galactica 1980, Lost in Space and The Twilight Zone . 40 Guns to Apache Pass, the last film of Audie Murphy, was shot there in 1966." Copied from Wikipedia Wonderful. Thanks so much! |
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Post by flanz on Mar 22, 2019 3:51:33 GMT
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Post by *Shannon on Mar 22, 2019 4:58:50 GMT
Bristlecone Pines One of my favorite places on Earth, ~90 miles north of Lone Pine. And Mount Whitney, about 20 miles west of Lone Pine. And, and... the Tehachapi Loop about 30 miles west of Mojave (on the route from LA to Lone Pine) is really cool to see if you can catch a train coming by... another favorite memory. My parents lived in Porterville for several years and we frequented all these places. So many beautiful things to see in that area. Oh, and make sure to pull over somewhere at night, somewhere in the middle of absolute nowhere... pull over, turn off your car and lay on the hood and watch the stars.
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Post by Lexica on Mar 22, 2019 18:46:48 GMT
My son and I used to go to the Mt. Whitney Fish Hatchery to look around and feed the fish. I took him camping in that area frequently. He was very big on fishing. There used to be a bakery in one of those little towns that made the best sheepherders bread. This was many years ago, but I had been going there for over 20 years so it may still be there. Many of the other towns carried their bread too. Schat’s Bakery? There is one in Mammoth and one in Bishop. ETA - Mammoth is a bit far from Lone Pine and traffic up there might be heavy on a weekend since there is still a lot of good skiing. That’s the one! Thank you! Most of the towns leading up to Bishop carry the bread in their food stores, so it is worth looking for it. I remember my son loving it and we discovered it in either a Lone Pine or Independence market when we were on a short 2-day fishing trip. |
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Or drive to Whitney Portal Campground, 12 miles (23 minutes)from Lone Pine, and you'll be at over 8,000 feet. You could have a picnic there and find a great view of the highest mountain in the contiguous US. Depending on the health of the members of your group, you could take a short hike from there.
