Hey Everyone!!
Here is about my day in Lone Pine! I started by visiting the Beverly & Jim Rogers Museum.
This place is great!!! It is a museum of the history of film making in the Lone Pine area.
There have been hundreds of movies and commercials made here. Not all of the movies were Westerns either! That was a real surprise to me!
This museum was full of posters, costumes and many other artifacts from all the movies made here. There were saddles, outfits, guns, stage coach, autographs.....and so much more. They also had a small movie theater- where they show for free a 10 min movie about the filming in Lone Pine. The museum also had a wonderful gift shop with a lot of unique gifts.
After spending a couple of hours taking in all the sites here- I was ready to go out and see the actual place these movies were made. It is called Movie Road located in the Alabama Hills, at the base of Mount Whitney (the highest point in the lower 48 States).
It was so great to actually be where all those movies were made....to walk where so many famous people had walked before me....but more important to me was to see GOD's most wonderful beautiful creations... these mountains, and rock formations wowed me constantly!
I hope you like the pictures I took- trying to capture the beauty of this area!!
This whole area offers so much for everyone!!! Here are just a few things to see and do:
1) Eastern Sierra Museums- (there are 20 of them) here are a few of the web sites:
www.monocommuseum.org- Mono County Museum
info@friendsofbodie.org - Bodie State Historic Park
www.MonoLake.org - Mono Lake Committee Information Center
mbhs@qnet.com - Old School House Museum
www.nps.gov/depo - Devils Postpile National Monument
www.MammothMountain.com - Top of the Sierra
www.Mammothskimuseum.org - Mammoth Ski Museum
www.lawsmuseum.org - Laws Railroad Museum
www.fs.fed.us/r5/inyo - Bristlecone Pine Forest Visitor Center
www.countyofinyo.org/ecmuseum - Eastern California Museum
www.nps.gov/manz - Manzanar National Historical Site
www.lonepinefilmhistorymuseum.org - Beverly & Jim Rogers Museum
www.nps.gov/deva/historyculture/house-tour.htm - Scotty's Castle
www.nps.gov/deva/ - Death Vally National Park, Furnace Creek Visitor Center, Borax Museum
www.maturango.org - Maturano Museum
2) Hiking Mt. Whitney
3) The Alabama Hills
4) The Whitney Portal Road
5) Movie Road
6) Rock Climbing, Fishing, Bird Watching
7) Death Valley National Park
8) Cerro Gordo Ghost Town
And these are just a few of the many wonderful things to see and do....If you ever find yourself in this area- please take the time to check out this gem in the Sierras!!
Take care everyone...off to get the pictures together.... take everyone- Love Donna
SEE PICTURES IN ALBUM #126 http://picasaweb.google.com/Pandadmd5880
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