In the Spotlight
The rounded, weathered contours of the Alabama Hills form a sharp contrast between the crisply sculptured ridges of the Sierra Mountains.
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Alabama Hills
The outstanding features and environment of the Alabama Hills have attracted movie makers, commercial companies and tourists from all over the world. Since the early 1920's, movie stars such as Tom Mix, Hopalong Cassidy, Gene Autry and the Lone Ranger, have been shooting it out with outlaws. Classics such as Gunga Din, Springfield Rifle, and How the West was Won, were filmed at sites now known as "Movie Flats" and at Movie Flat Road.
Volunteers help clean up Alabama Hills
More than two dozen volunteers, including members of the Alabama Hills Stewardship Group and staff from the BLM office in Bishop, cleaned up trash in the Alabama Hills Recreation Area before the annual Lone Pine Film Festival. The cleanup was also a celebration of National Public Lands Day -- a way to give back to your public lands. Read More...
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