CONVICT LAKE, CALIF. — My brother, John, tried to sleep during the boring part of the three-hour trip from Los Angeles to Convict Lake in the Eastern Sierra. Fortunately, I was driving.

And Mono County, that peak-pretty, forest-lush spot in the Eastern Sierra, has called "now" on perfect fall color around Convict Lake. "Everyone's been waiting and it's as if the light switch just ...

“I saw an ad in the paper that Convict Lake needed store help, and here I am, six years later still here.” Balarsky, who also arrived at the lake six years ago, credits Morrison for helping ...

The 12,000 ft peak towering above convict lake is named Mount Morrison. Two fishing derbies in the spring and fall are named in honor of this lake's history. The round up at the lake in the spring ...

Beene will be interviewing Richard Mallard, who wrote a book about the 1990 incident in which seven people drowned in Convict Lake near Mammoth. Three teenagers from the juvenile facility Camp O ...

Curiously, half of the campgrounds in the top 10 are in Inyo National Forest, with the other four being Silver Lake Campground, Coldwater Campground, Convict Lake Campground and June Lake.

Reporting from Convict Lake, Calif. — My brother, John, tried to sleep during the boring part of the three-hour trip from Los Angeles to Convict Lake in the Eastern Sierra. Fortunately ...