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The Atlas Obscura Guide To Lee Vining

3 Cool, Hidden, and Unusual Things to Do in Lee Vining, California

Updated July 6, 2022

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Lee Vining, California

Mono Lake

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

Lee Vining, California

Black Point Fissures by Mono Lake

Deep vertical fissures like miniature slot canyons cut across the cemented volcanic rock of Black Point above Mono Lake.

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Panum Crater

A volcanic cone that formed over 600 years ago.
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Mono City, California

Basalt Plug

This large chunk of dark rock is a relic from an ancient volcanic eruption.
8 miles from Lee Vining

Mono Mills, California

Mono Mills

A relic of the region's once booming timber industry.
9 miles from Lee Vining

Bridgeport, California

Sinnamon Cut

This trench, some 2,300 feet long, is only the most prominent relic of a largely forgotten episode of placer mining on the east slope of the Sierra Nevada.
10 miles from Lee Vining

June Lake, California

Obsidian Dome

A natural dome made of volcanic glass in Inyo National Forest.
14 miles from Lee Vining
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