Category: Visit

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

Four people paddle in an aluminum canoe with tufa formations and gray mountain peaks streaked with snow in the distance.

April 30, 2020

Tours

Mono Lake canoe tour program canceled this year

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.

March 30, 2020

Travel conditions, Visit

LA Times reports on Mono County’s plea for visitors to stay home

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.

March 20, 2020

Travel conditions, Visit

Please do not visit Mono Lake right now

A single set of ski tracks cross fresh snow in the direction of tufa formations and a glassy lake surface reflecting snowy mountains and puffy white clouds.

March 16, 2020

Tours

Mono Lake Committee public programs canceled through March 31

Two figures with ski poles are in motion in a snow field. Ahead of them, Mono lake is highly reflective of the white mountains and blue gray clouds.

February 20, 2020

Field Seminars

Mono Basin Winter Wander field seminars in March