The Mojave Desert: Places to Explore

Lone Pine

Mt. Whitney towers majestically over this tiny community, which supplied nearby gold- and silver-mining outposts in the 1860s, and for the past century—especially from the 1920s through the ?50s—the town has been touched by Hollywood glamour: several hundred movies, TV episodes, and commercials have been filmed here.

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