Category: Visit

A line of deciduous trees in bright fall colors dotted with pine trees in front of a tall mountain with clouds coming over.

October 5, 2020

Natural history, Visit

Eastern Sierra fall color locations reopen

Hiker with a backpack walks along a rocky trail up in the mountains with alpine trees and a sharp Sierra skyline.

October 5, 2020

Visit

The Inyo National Forest is partially open: What can I do?

Blue Saddlebag Lake in the foreground with high alpine granite mountains with patches of snow in the background.

October 2, 2020

Visit

Inyo National Forest partially reopens on October 3

View of the Merced River flowing through a very smokey Yosemite Valley with orange smoke hanging in the air and coloring everything in muted hues.

September 17, 2020

Travel conditions

Yosemite National Park closing tonight at 5:00pm

Wildfire flames and plume of smoke along the shore of Mono Lake in the distance with a truck driving down a contry road towards the fire.

September 3, 2020

Travel conditions, Visit

South Tufa & Navy Beach will remain closed through Labor Day weekend

View from the road to South Tufa with burned vegetation and black fire scars with Mono Lake in the smokey distance.

August 19, 2020

Travel conditions

Firefighters close to containing Mono Lake’s Beach Fire

A wildfire with red and orange flames and a large plume of dark smoke in a large open expanse of sagebrush along the shore of Mono Lake.

August 17, 2020

Travel conditions

Beach Fire ignited by lightning near Mono Lake’s southeast shore

Sunrise light on a grove of tufa towers emerging from the water of Mono Lake with soft green and dusty-red wild grasses in the foreground, Canada geese in the shallow water with reflections of the rocky towers, and desert hills in the distance.

June 8, 2020

Travel conditions

Tioga Pass will open on Monday, June 15

Six people gather around a guide who is using his hands to describe something, and the group is standing on a high precipice overlooking Mono Lake stretched out in a large expanse of blue with a clear view of the islands in the lake and the desert all around.

May 25, 2020

Field Seminars

2020 Mono Basin Field Seminars are canceled

Sunrise light on a grove of tufa towers emerging from the water of Mono Lake with soft green and dusty-red wild grasses in the foreground, Canada geese in the shallow water with reflections of the rocky towers, and desert hills in the distance.

May 15, 2020

Travel conditions

Roads opening in the Mono Lake region