Highway 395, 26 miles north of Independence and 15 miles south of Bishop
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Services and Accommodations
Restaurants and Eateries:
Public Internet Use Facilities:
Museums and Point of Interest:
Events and Festivities: April 26: Opening Day for
the General Trout Season; November 15: General Trout Season Closes
Summer Recreation: Biking, Birding, Camping, Fishing, Golfing, Hang Gliding, Hiking, Horseback Riding, Mountaineering, Photography, Rock Climbing
Winter Recreation:
Sporting Goods Stores:
Fly Shops:
Nearby Fishing: Home: Big Pine: Fishing Fishing Tips (Big Pine Creek, Owens River)
Nearby Camping: Home: Big Pine: Camping (Tinnemaha Campground)
Big Pine Chamber of Commerce: Big Pine Chamber
of Commerce and Visitor Center, P.O. Box 23, Big Pine, California 93513
(760) 938-2114 or (866) 938-2114
Community Parks:
Tours and Side-Trips: Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest; Big Pine Canyon; Keoughs Hots Springs
RV Related:
Recreational Contacts: Glacier Pack Train (760)
938-2538. The pack station is located 11 miles west of Big Pine on a paved road. Pack trips include spot, dunnage and base camp, along with day rides. Fishing and pack trips reach Big Pine Lakes, Palisades Glaciers, Sawmill Pass, Baker Lakes and day rides to upper lakes.
Government Contacts:
Department of Fish and Game: (www.dfg.ca.gov/fishing) Season dates, licenses, restrictions, fish stocking
Inyo
National Forest: books, maps and wilderness passes and permits: Mt. Whitney
Ranger Station (760) 873-2500; White Mountain Ranger Station (760) 873-2500;
Mammoth Ranger Station (760) 924-5500
www.fs.fed.us/r5/inyo/about
Big Pine Expansion
Notes in Alphabetical Order
The
Across the broad Owens Valley lays a parallel mountain range
that stretches east of Lone Pine northwards into
Unassuming in height, the Bristlecone Pine grows on barren, windswept slopes with little vegetation, which protects them from to wildfire danger. Stout and gnarly, their twisted limbs entwine as they stand as proud survivors and testimony to the rigors of nature and time not in decades or centuries but in millennium. Slow to grow, their dense wood core wards off insects and disease. Dr. Edmund Schulman, who discovered the trees in the 1950’s, has studied the ring growth in living and dead trees and provided a 9,000 year record of weather patterns for the region.
The Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest is 36 miles from Big
Pine. The last thirteen miles are
unpaved and rough in places. A picnic
site is located at approximately 16 miles.
The only campground is Grandview Campground, a few miles north from the
To visit Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest, turn east on Highway 168 from Highway 395 in Big Pine. After thirteen miles, turn left onto Road 01, a signed road to the forest.
Big Pine
Named for the large stands of pine trees in the area, Big
Pine was a logging and lumber operation that served the mining districts from
Cerro Gordo all the way up to Bodie and Aurora, Nevada and eastward over
Westgard Pass to White Mountain City.
The lumber was freighted by teams
of oxen on large wagons with iron-rimmed, spoke wheels. Big Pine offers highway junction 168 to the
Keough’s Hot Springs.
With a claim to be the Eastern Sierra’s largest natural
Companion Web Sites:
Glacier to Yellowstone (A complete guide to camping and fishing in Montana from Glacier to Yellowstone)
Fishing Tips 101 (Offering a "Mastering the Basics" series for freshwater fishing)
Bass and Trout Fishing Digest (Dave's hodge-podge of fishing adventures in Northern California and Oregon)
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