Campground
Whitney Portal Campground
Lone Pine, California
Road-end camp at 8,000 ft beneath Mt Whitney, with a waterfall and the famous trailhead store.
- Price
- About US$34 per night
- Booking
- Book ahead
- Time to allow
- 2 hours
- Sites
- 46
Whitney Portal is where the Mt Whitney Trail begins, 13 miles up a winding road from Lone Pine. The campground sits by a creek with a waterfall nearby, and the Whitney Portal Store sells big breakfasts and burgers. Even if you are not climbing, it is a fine place to sleep with the Alabama Hills below.
Good to know
- Reserve early, summer sells out
- Store hours are seasonal, usually mid-spring to autumn
- Strict food storage rules for bears
- Best time
- Summer and early autumn
- Open
- Roughly May to October
- Getting there
- Whitney Portal Road, steep but sealed; large RVs not recommended
- Vehicles
- Campervans fine
- Dogs
- Dogs on a lead
Facilities
- Fire pits
- Picnic tables
- Toilets
- Drinking water
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