Attend the Lone Pine Film Festival & Tour the High Sierra this Fall, Oct.9-12.

Thursday, October 9, 2025 at 3:30 PM to Sunday-October 12, 2025.
Lone Pine Movie Museum
701 S Main St,, · Lone Pine, CA
Note: Even though this event is weeks away, most of the hotel/motel rooms in Lone Pine, Calif., home of, The Museum of Western Film History, are reserved. Also the popular tours and events book quickly. Be sure to check nearby towns for a stay. (I was able to book a room in Independence, Calif.)
If you are not having any luck finding a place to stay here's a recommendation: The Courthouse Motel, Independence, CA, USA.
760-878-2732
motelindepedence@gmail.com
This seems like a nice family run place, not fancy, clean and inexpensive. low $100s per night. 16 miles north of Lone Pine on #395. If booked up ask them for a recommendation.
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Let's get a group together to attend this terrific event in the eastern Sierra, along Route #395, in the town of Lone Pine. (There are in addition 29 separate outdoor tours (some on horseback.) to choose from in combination with the Festival film screenings, talks, forums etc. The sponsor is, The Museum of Western Film History.)
Here is a link with all the info.
I'm planning on visiting some of the natural and historic points of interest in the area as well. For example the nearby mountaintop mining town of Cerro Gordo built in 1875, becoming the richest silver mine in the state. There are many rock arches and mountain lakes to see as well as well as many other POIs. It will be nice to see the fall colors as well as we tour the area. To be honest I don't know how many old westerns I can watch in one weekend but the area is spectacular and there will be lots to do.
(There will be more plans once we have a group together with our stays reserved, get a ticket and reserve special tour selections, suggestions and questions to come . There is a list of places to stay in the area. See in photos. But you'll be using Booking.com or Hotels.com to reserve. If you are serious do it very soon. But cancellations are always possible if you can't make it.)

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Errol Flynn, John Wayne, Gene Autry, Spencer Tracy, Robert Downey, Jr. and Jeff Bridges, as well as directors, Budd Boetticher, John Ford, Quentin Tarantino, William Wellman, and William Witney worked here.
The first Sierra Film Festival Festival was held in 1990. A little film history background: Since 1920, hundreds of films; including Gunga Din, How the West Was Won, King of the Khyber Rifles, High Sierra; and TV Episodes, The Lone Ranger and Bonanza; with such stars as Tom Mix, Hopalong Cassidy, Roy Rogers, Gary Cooper, Glenn Ford and Humphrey Bogart, have filmed in these rugged Alabama Hills with the majestic Sierra Nevada background.
Join in 2025 for a unique extended weekend experience that includes celebrity guests and topical presentations, movie screenings and panels, many, many on-location movie site tours, book signings, and a Sunday Main Street parade.
It's a great time of the year for a road trip especially in the Sierra during the Fall.
Attend the Lone Pine Film Festival & Tour the High Sierra this Fall, Oct.9-12.