Mono Lake Tufa State Natural Reserve
Eastern Sierra
parks
At a glance
- Size
- 55300
- Established
- 1982
parks detail
- Hook
- Limestone tufa towers rising from an ancient inland sea twice as salty as the ocean
- More
- The 1983 and 1994 water-rights decisions that saved Mono Lake from LA's aqueduct became the 'public trust' precedent taught in every environmental-law course. South Tufa's towers, alkali-fly rafts, and millions of migrating phalaropes and grebes — plus the committee's excellent Lee Vining center — tell the story.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 37.939, -119.027