Lone Pine, CA Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

Rising out of the northern Mojave Desert, the mountainous backbone of the Sierra Nevada announces itself with a bang two hundred miles north of Los Angeles at 14,494ft Mount Whitney , the highest point in the lower 48 states. A silver-gray ridge of pinnacles forms a nearly sheer wall of granite, dominating the small roadside town of LONE PINE eleven thousand feet below. Motels here include the Dow Villa Motel/Historic Dow Hotel at 310 S Main St (tel 760/876-5521 or 1-800/824-9317, www.dowvillamotel.com ; $50–75), where John Wayne always stayed when filming in the area, and the Best Western Frontier Motel , … more »