Visit Bishop

This Fourth of July, most people will spend the evening looking skyward for fireworks. Here in the Eastern Sierra, the celebration begins long before sunset. As America celebrates its 250th birthday, nature puts on its own patriotic display. From the desert...

Bishop is small. Our backyard is not.

Between granite peaks, ancient trees, hot springs, blue-ribbon trout water, and a night sky so dark you can see the Milky Way without trying, there’s a lot packed into this corner of the Eastern Sierra — way more than you can figure out on the fly from the front seat of your car. That’s exac...

Oddities of nature and the stuff of human ingenuity and absurdity exist here in the Eastern Sierra just as they do the world over. The fascinating history of these weird and wonderful things is as incredible as the objects and attractions themselves. We find ourselves looking at these mysterious m...

Just east of Bishop, beyond the sagebrush-covered Owens Valley and high in the rugged White Mountains, lives one of the most extraordinary organisms on Earth. Hidden among a grove of ancient Great Basin bristlecone pines is Methuselah, the world’s oldest ...

By Lee Foster

What are the oldest living things on earth? The current consensus is that they are trees, the ancient bristlecone pines, which grow in the White Mountains of California, east from Bishop.

You can easily make their acquaintance ...