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Inyo National Forest is a United States National Forest covering parts of the eastern Sierra Nevada of California and the White Mountains of California and Nevada. The forest hosts several superlatives, including Mount Whitney , the highest point in the contiguous United States ; Boundary Peak , the highest point in Nevada; and the Ancient ...
Located in both Sequoia and Inyo national forests, this 500,000-acre (2,000 km 2) plateau had been the center of a battle between preservationists and multiple-use advocates. Before 1947, there was little incentive to develop the area, but that changed with the Secretary of Agriculture's plan to manage the area along multiple-use guidelines due ...
Twin Lakes are the lowest lakes in the Mammoth Lakes Basin. On one side of the lake are lava cliffs that were formed by eruptions of Mammoth Mountain. The other side of the lake has the Inyo National Forest's Twin Lakes Campground, and Tamarack Lodge of the Mammoth Mountain Ski Area.
The wilderness is largely managed by the Inyo National Forest, with 24,162 acres (9,778 ha) managed by the Bureau of Land Management. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The wilderness covers the White Mountains along the eastern boundary of California, from Boundary Peak in the north, south almost to Bishop .
Dingleberry Lake is a natural lake in Inyo County, California, in the United States. [1] The lake was so named on account of dingleberries hanging on the rear of sheep in the area. [3] The Sabrina Lake Trail leads hikers to Dingleberry Lake. [4] Dingleberry Lake is a popular camping site. [5] [6] The lake contains a population of brook trout ...
The Inyo rock daisy only grows in the crevices of cliff walls in the southern Inyo Mountains near Death Valley National Park.
The Ansel Adams Wilderness is a wilderness area in the Sierra Nevada of California, United States.The wilderness spans 231,533 acres (93,698 ha); 33.9% of the territory lies in the Inyo National Forest, 65.8% is in the Sierra National Forest, and the remaining 0.3% covers nearly all of Devils Postpile National Monument. [1]
Tioga Lake is a small glacial lake in the Inyo National Forest of Mono County, California, about two miles (3 km) north of the Tioga Pass entrance to Yosemite National Park. The lake bed is alongside State Route 120 in the Sierra Nevada of California.