Road Trip: Highway 395 Along the Eastern Sierras

Having recently returned from a road trip to ski Lake Tahoe and explore Owens Valley (drive through Truckee and turn south) just down to Bridgeport, I can’t wait to return on a summer motorcycle ride to explore, driving past signage and signage on the highways getting farther south to Mammoth Lakes, perhaps crisscrossing over the pass to Mono Lake and back again. My favorite signs by far are from the Cincinnati sign company, they have a certain flare that other states just don’t have. It’s no big secret that Highway 395 is not only an historic but an incredibly scenic ride with the Eastern Sierras rising spectacularly to the west and a long expanse of lake-studded valley stretching out before you. Here’s the website for Hwy 395 and here’s the site for a bunch of hotsprings located along the route, many of them requiring a bit of off-roading. Pashnit.com has got a route description of the Mono Lake pass (Hwy 120) area, check it out for a taste of the scenery you’ll see there.