Contacts - Parks, Museums, Info centers, Chamber of Commerce
for Eastern
Sierra and Northern Mojave Desert points of interest
Address, phone, web page, and e-mail contact
in that order
Museums/Visitor Centers - (all have books for sale on the local area)
Ancient Bristlecone Pine- Schulman Grove Visitor Center
23 mi. east of Big Pine via Hwy 168 and White Mountain Road
contact USFS in Bishop
760 873-2500
Ancient
Bristlecone Pine Schulman Grove
Bodie State Historic Park
13 mi. east of Hwy 395, between Mono Lake and Bridgeport
P.O. Box 515
Bridgeport, CA 93517
760 647-6455
Bodie
State Historic Park (Official State Page)
Bodie State Historic Park (Friends
of Bodie)
Death Valley National Park Visitor Center
Hwy 190 at Furnace Creek
Death Valley CA 93238
760 786-2331
NPS Death Valley Page
Maturango Museum's
Death Valley Info Page
Eastern California Museum
155 N. Grant St (3 blocks west of Hwy 395 at Courthouse)
P.O. Box 206
Independence, CA 93526
760 878-0258
ECM
page
Eastern Sierra InterAgency Visitor Center
all Mt. Whitney Permits here!
Intersection of Hwy 395 and 136
P.O. Box R
Lone Pine, CA 93545-2017
760 876-6222
InterAgency
Visitor Center
Jawbone Station Visitor Information Center
28111 Jawbone Rd. Cantil, CA 93519 (no mail)
P.O. Box 1161, Mojave, CA 93502-1161
760 373-1146 FAX 760 373-1165
Email jawbone@ccis.com
Jawbone
info
Kern River Valley Historical Society Museum
49 Big Blue Rd
P.O. Box 651
Kernville, CA 93238
760 376-6683
Kern River
Valley Historical Museum
Laws Railroad Museum
6 miles north of Bishop on Hwy 6, on Silver Canyon Road
by Bishop Museum and Historical Society 760 873-4478
P.O. Box 363
Bishop, CA 93515
760 873-5950
Laws Railroad Museum
Lone Pine Film History Museum
S. Hwy 395 across from USFS, High School
Lone Pine CA
http://www.lonepinefilmhistorymuseum.org/museum.htm
Maturango Museum (and Northern Mojave Visitor Center)
100 E. Las Flores Ave
Ridgecrest, CA 93555
760 375-6900 FAX 760 375-0479
Maturango Museum
Email matmus@maturango.org
Mono Lake Committee Information Center
Hwy 395 and 3rd Street
P.O. Box 29
Lee Vining, CA 93541
760 647-6595
Mono Lake Committee Information
Center
Email info@monolake.org
Paiute Shoshone Indian Cultural Center
2300 West Line Street
Bishop, CA 93514
760 873-9478
Randsburg Desert Museum
156 Butte Ave
Randsburg, CA 93554
(760) 374-2359
Red Rock Canyon State Park Visitor Center
Abbot Drive, Hwy 14 Cantil, CA 93519 (no mail- See RRCIA)
(no phone, and no cell service!)
Red Rock Canyon
State Park Visitor Center
Red Rock Canyon Interpretive Association (for books at the
VC)
P.O. Box 848
Ridgecrest, CA 93556
Searles Valley Historical Society
P.O. Box 630
Trona, CA 93592
760 372-5222
e-mail tronamuseum@verizon.net
Searles Valley Historical
Society
Old Guest House Museum, Trona
13193 Main Street Open mornings, M,W,Sat 9a.m.-noon; T, F 10am.-1p.m.
760 372-4800, 372-5230
Historic House & Railway Museum, Trona
83001 Panamint Street, open by appointment
The U.S.Naval Museum of Armament and Technology
(China Lake Weapons Museum)
1 Pearl Harbor Dr. (end of Blandy St)
Ridgecrest, CA 93555
760 939-3530
China Lake Museum
Other sources of information
AAA - Automobile Club of Southern California
Ridgecrest members may order books and maps on-line
AAA Automobile Club of Southern
California
Death Valley Natural History Association
P.O. Box 188
Death Valley, CA 92328
760 786-3285, 800 478-8564
Email membership@dvnha.org
DVNHA home page
Historical Society of the Upper Mojave Desert
302 Station Street
P.O. Box 2001
Ridgecrest, CA 93556-2001
760 375-8456
Historical Society
of the Upper Mojve Desert
Information Center of Indian Wells Valley
100 W. California Ave (in City Hall)
Ridgecrest, CA 93555
760 499-5015
Kerncrest Audubon Society
P.O. Box 984
Ridgecrest, CA 93556
Kerncrest Audubon Society
Kern Valley Canyon Connection
P.O. Box 334
Kernville, CA 93238-0334
e-mail Kern
Valley Connection
U. S. Bureau of Land Management
300 Richmond Road
Ridgecrest, CA 93555
760 384-5400
BLM, Ridgecrest office
U.S. Forest Service
Kernville Ranger Station (760) 376-3781
Burlando Rd, Kernville
Lake Isabella Ranger Station760 379-5646
at the main dam overlook
4875 Ponderosa Dr. Lake Isabella, CA
http://www.fs.fed.us/r5/sequoia
Chambers of Commerce, etc.
Chambers are the folk who can mail you info about the community
- maps, things to see and do, "relocation packets",
etc.
Bishop Chamber of Commerce and Visitors Bureau
690 N. Main St.
Bishop, CA 93514
760 873-8405, (888 )395-3952
Bishop Chamber of Commerce
and Visitors Bureau
Email info@bishopvisitor.com
Death Valley Chamber of Commerce
118 Highway 127
P.O. Box 157
Shoshone, CA 92384-0157
760 852-4524 Fax 852-4354
Death Valley Chamber
of Commerce
Email deathvalleych@veawb.coop
Inyokern Chamber of Commerce
P.O. Box 232
Inyokern, CA 93527-0232
760 377-4804
Email inyokern_cc@iwvisp.com
Kernville Chamber of Commerce
11447 Kernville Road
Kernville, CA 93238
760 376-2629
e-mail Kernvillechamber@lightspeed.net
Kernville Chamber
Lone Pine Chamber of Commerce
126 S. Main St.
P.O. Box 749
Lone Pine, CA 93545
760 876-4444l toll free 877 253-8981; FAX 760 876-9205
Lone Pine Chamber of
Commerce
Email info@lonepinechamber.org
Ridgecrest Chamber of Commerce
128 E. California Ave. Suite B
Ridgecrest, CA 93555
760 375-8331 FAX 760 375-0365
Ridgecrest Chamber
of Commerce
Email chamber@ridgenet.net
Ridgecrest Area Convention & Visitors Bureau
Kerr McGee Center, 101 W. California St.
Ridgecrest, CA 93555
1-800-847-4830
760 375-8202, FAX 375-9850
Ridgecrest Area Convention
& Visitors Bureau
Email racvb@filmdeserts.com
current as of 1/2007
please send corrections to janet westbrook