Lone Pine Road Trip

Lone Pine is a historic unincorporated town and census-designated place in Inyo County, California, with a population of 2,014 people as of the 2020 census. Nestled in the Owens Valley along U.S. Route 395, the town sits between the towering Sierra Nevada range to the west—home to 14,505-foot Mount Whitney, the highest peak in the contiguous United States—and the Inyo Mountains to the east. Originally founded in the 1860s as a supply hub for local silver and gold mining operations like Cerro Gordo, Lone Pine is now world-renowned as a premier gateway for mountaineering, desert recreation, and Hollywood film history, with the nearby Alabama Hills serving as the dramatic backdrop for hundreds of classic Westerns and modern blockbusters.