Mono County

Built around the mining camps that followed the eastern Sierra’s nineteenth-century mineral discoveries, Mono County grew into a sparsely populated high-country county in California. The Sierra Nevada forms much of its western edge, while the Mono Basin centres on saline Mono Lake, known for its tufa towers and migratory birds. Mammoth Lakes is the county’s principal resort community, close to Mammoth Mountain and the volcanic terrain of the Long Valley Caldera. North of the lake, Bodie State Historic Park preserves the remains of a former gold-mining town. Roads and passes connect broad sagebrush basins with alpine terrain, though seasonal conditions can be severe. Browse other webcams across Mono County to place this eastern Sierra setting in a wider geographic context.

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