Owens Valley
Natural Setting
The Owens Valley is the westernmost of the more than 150 desert basins which, together with the more than 160 discontinuous subparallel mountain ranges that separate them, form the Great Basin section of the Basin and Range Province of the western United States. Owens Valley is commonly defined as the narrow northwest/southeast trending trough bounded by the towering Sierra Nevada on the west, the White-Inyo Range on the east and extending northward from the Coso Range south of Owens Lake for more than 100 miles to the great bend in the Owens River northwest of Laws, California. The average elevation of the valley floor is approximately 3,700 feet. The valley includes the area drained by Owens River and its tributaries, and it contains two smaller topographic depressions, Long and Round Valleys. [25]MANZANAR
Historic Resource Study/Special History Study
GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY OF OWENS VALLEY
Alabama Hills
Big Pine
Bishop
Bristlecone Pine Forest
Cartago
Cerro Gordo
Cottonwood Charcoal Kilns
Darwin
Dirty Sock Springs
Dolomite
Fossil Falls
Fossil Falls
Independence
Keeler
Keeler Cemetery
Keeler Smelter
Little Lake
Lone Pine, Ca.
Olancha Dunes
Owens Lake
Swansea
Owens Valley History
Owens Lake Steamers
CulturalOwens Valley Paiute
The Owens Valley Paiute belong to an extensive group known generically as the Northern Paiute (in western Nevada as the Paviotso), which extends through ...Ecological
Owens Valley
Inyo Mountains
Coso & Argus Ranges
Transportation
Highway 395
Highway 190
Trip Guides
For the Eastern Sierra and Death Valley
History
