Driving Directions to
Whitney Area
(Whitney Portal, Meysan Lake)

GENERAL NOTES:

• for overall context, please see the Hwy 395 overview (look for waypoint LONPIN)
• popup local area map showing Big Pine south to Lone Pine (look for waypoint LONPIN)
• Related GPS waypoints in Waypoint+ format (NAD83, decimal degrees)
  with descriptive comments, in a popup window.

WARNING: Bears are very active at Whitney Portal, and will break into cars just to see if food might be there - even if no food is there.

Take the Whitney Portal Road west from the center of Lone Pine (waypoint LONPIN). About 3 miles later continue straight (west) past Horseshoe Meadows Road (waypoint HORSEJ), and follow the pavement all the way to Whitney Portal (the big tourist destination). (NOTE: The GRANIT and OLIVAS waypoints below are trailheads for Tuttle Creek.)

The trail over Trail Crest starts from road's end (waypoint PORTAL), and later splits into the Mountaineer's Route (North Fork of Lone Pine Creek) and the easier walking trail (past Mirror Lake).

The trail up to Meysan Lake (for peaks like LeConte) starts in a campground just downhill from the portal (waypoint MEYSAN) and follows Meysan Creek in an entirely separate drainage south of the Whitney trail.

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