Due to the high volume of trail users, the forest service enforces special regulations here to preserve whitney's wild character Wilderness permits are always required to use the trail, and between may 1 and november 1, a quota permits only 60 overnight. Even free camping sometimes needs paperwork National forest in california and nevada, united statesmount ritter and banner peak along the john muir trail the schulman grove of bristlecone pines inyo national forest is a united states national forest covering parts of the eastern sierra nevada of california and the white mountains of california and nevada The forest hosts several superlatives, including mount whitney, the highest point. The golden trout wilderness is a federally designated wilderness area in the sierra nevada, in tulare county and inyo county, california
It is located 40 miles (64 km) east of porterville within inyo national forest and sequoia national forest. Most of the mountain range (199,208 acres (806.17 km 2)) is designated as the inyo mountain wilderness, managed by the bureau of land management in the south and the united states forest service in the north [4] the usfs manages 73,300 acres (297 km 2) of the wilderness all within inyo national forest [5] wildlife in the area includes the endangered inyo mountains salamander and the desert. The john muir wilderness is a wilderness area that extends along the crest of the sierra nevada of california for 90 miles (140 km), in the inyo and sierra national forests [2] established in 1964 by the wilderness act and named for naturalist john muir, it encompasses 652,793 acres (2,641.76 km 2)
The mono basin national forest scenic area is a protected area in eastern california that surrounds mono lake and the northern half of the mono craters volcanic field It is administered by the inyo national forest as a unit of the national forest scenic area program, under the u.s
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