View of Black Point on the north shore of Mono Lake on Feb. 4 in Lee Vining, Calif. The north shore of the lake was a site of Native American massacres in the 1800s. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles ...

Passing clouds provide a striking backdrop for exposed tufa towers along the shore of Mono Lake in Lee Vining in the fall of 2021. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) With a third year of drought ...

LEE VINING, Calif. — The picturesque tufa towers on the shores of Mono Lake, formed over centuries by underwater springs and left high and dry as Los Angeles diverted water from nearby creeks, have ...

In late February, a series of avalanches buried half a mile of U.S. Route 395 on the eastern side of California's Sierra Nevada under 30 to 40 feet of snow and debris. Three weeks and another ...

MONO LAKE, Calif. (News 4 & Fox 11) — Multiple massive avalanches have shut down a portion of US. 395 along Mono Lake between Lee Vining and Mono City. Between February 25 and February 28, an unknown ...

Mono Lake is just east of the Sierra Nevada Range near the small town of Lee Vining, California, the eastern gateway to Yosemite National Park. Seeing it is a uniquely Western experience, and summer ...