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Byway Sites (Traveling South to North)

  1. Topaz Lake
  2. Walker River
  3. Bridgeport
  4. Conway Summit
  5. Virginia Creek
  6. Mono Lake
  7. Mono Craters
  8. June Lake
  9. Crestview
  10. Mammoth Lakes
  11. Crowley Lake
  12. Sherwin Grade
  13. Round Valley
  14. Bishop
  15. Bristlecone Pines
  16. Division Creek
  17. Owens Valley
  18. Dehy Park
  19. Manzanar
  20. Lone Pine
  21. Diaz Lake
  22. Coso Junction
  23. Fossil Falls

 

Site No. 16— Division Creek

Highlights

Water and Valley Wildlife

The Owens Valley stretches from Haiwee Reservoir in the south to the Sherwin Summit in the north (just north of the town of Bishop).

The Owens River is approximately 120 miles long and drains into a the Owens Valley. The site of a long-running chapter of the bitter California Water Wars, the river drained into Owens Lake until it was entirely diverted for irrigation and drinking water. On December 6, 2006, the City of Los Angeles restored 5% of its post-aqueduct flow, by court order.