We’ve been staying closer to home and taking shorter trips. So our RV trips are to locations that are within two-days travel from home. We were hoping that there might be Fall colors in the eastern Sierras based on some travel vlogs & Google searches. Plus some photographers in the UCSD Photography Interest Group have talked about their trips to the Alabama Hills in Lone Pine California. So we planned a short trip in mid-October, hoping to catch some Fall colors.
Since we often start our trips at noon, we prefer to keep our drives on day 1 to ~3hrs. Towing our travel trailer at ~55-60mph, especially through traffic, can be nerve-wracking. So we stopped about mid-way at Arabian RV Oasis in Boron CA. There aren’t many RV parks along highway 395 in this area. There are plenty of dispersed campsites but we prefer hookups.
Oct 13th – Arabian RV Oasis was good for one night – not fancy, quiet and affordable.
Oct 14th – Boulder Creek RV Resort
My friends recommended Lone Pine/Alabama Hills as a great plan to hike, camp, & photograph. They camp at Tuttle Creek Campground or other BLM dispersed campgrounds in the Lone Pine area. We wanted hookups so we stayed at Boulder Creek RV Resort in south Lone Pine. It’s a really nice RV park near the Mt Whitney Portal and Alabama Hills with great amenities and location. There are plenty of places to camp but this is one of the only RV campgrounds with hookups in the area.
Daytrips In or From Lone Pine:
- Town of Lone Pine, CA
- Olancha Sculpture Garden
- Alabama Hills – we hiked multiple days in the Alabama Hills, checking out the various movie locations and many arches. Hikes are short, and easy, on hot & dusty level trails.
- Manzanar National Historic Site – random stop, we drove past and had to stop even though we had not planned on it
- Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest – amazing Bristlecone Pine trees on a steep 10,000ft mountainside.
- Mt Whitney Fish Hatchery
- Mt Whitney Portal & Trail
- Lone Pine Film Museum
- Diaz Lake Bike Ride