The warm colors and rounded contours of the Alabama Hills, located on Whitney Portal Rd, stand in contrast to the jagged snowy Sierras just behind. The setting for countless ride-‘em-out movies, the popular Lone Ranger TV series, and more recently, parts of Quentin Tarantino's Django Unchained , the stunning orange rock formations are a beautiful place to experience sunrise or sunset.
You can drive, walk or mountain-bike along dirt roads rambling through the boulders, and along Tuttle and Lone Pine creeks. A number of graceful rock arches are within easy hiking distance of the roads. Head west on Whitney Portal Rd and either turn left at Tuttle Creek Rd, after a half-mile, or north on Movie Rd, after about 3 miles. The websites of the Lone Pine Chamber of Commerce and the Museum of Western Film History have excellent movie location maps.
