The campground is located just west of US highway 395 in Lone Pine, California, drive west on Whidbey Portal to Horseshoe Meadows Road. Turn left (south) and drive 4.5 miles to the highway entrance, see coordinates.

Basin and Range Region of California

Mojave Basin Ecoregion

Camping is great thought all the entire seasons with lots of areas for hiking, sightseeing and just exploring.

To the north is the Alabama Hills with its famous filming history and to the east is the Owens Valley and Inyo Mountains range.

Alabama Hills Recreation Area is a great place to spend the night for free if you are in the area in the Eastern Sierra Nevada, in the high desert land below the Whitney Portal Recreation Area.

The Alabama Hills are an open-desert primitive and dispersed camping area with no amenities, no water, no trash, no pavement, and no facilities whatsoever. This also means there are no fees. Permits are required for all fires.

Alabama Hills Recreation Area, a 30,000-acre portion of high desert land managed by the BLM.

Tuttle Creek campground is shadowed by some of the most impressive peaks in the Sierra Nevada Range, including: Mount Whitney, Lone Pine Peak and Mount Williamson and more, all of which rise to the west of the campground.

The view to the east contains the Inyo Mountain Wilderness with prominent peaks such as Mount Inyo, Keynot Peak, New York Butte and Cerro Gordo Paak (where Cerro Gordo ghost town is located). Further north of Mount Inyo is the Inyo Mountains Wilderness with prominent peaks such as Mazuoka Peak, Waucoba Mountain

Tuttle Creek is located wonderfully on a long, sweeping escarpment that runs from Owens Valley to the Sierra Nevada mountains, giving simply grand 360-degree views from every camp site including stunning view of Mt. Whitney.

At Tuttle Creek campsite, there are opportunities for auto touring, biking, camping, fishing, hiking, horseback riding, photography, recreational vehicles, water sports, wildlife viewing and winter sports.

The Inyo Mountains a short mountain range situated east of the Whitney Portal in Lone Pine, California and thus east of the Sierra Nevada mountains. The Inyo Mountains rise between the Owens Valley to the west and Saline Valley to the east

Westgard Pass, through which SH 168 travels between Big Pine, California on the west and Oasis, California on the east near the Nevada border, separates the White Mountains to the north with the Inyo mountain range in the south.

From the southern end of the White Mountains at Westgard Pass, the Inyo mountains rise and extends approximately 70 miles in a south by southeast direction to SR 190.

The Tuttle creek campground has 83 campsites, with ten campsite with pull-through trailer spaces. Maximum recommended RV length is 30 feet.

Dump station fee is $5.00, no passes accepted, closed in winter.

Closest amenities are 5 miles northeast in Lone Pine.

At most of the above listed federal park locations, Federal Parks Pass holders will receive half off camping fees.

Per site: $8.00

Open all year, no Reservations

Camping Limit: 14 continuous days, 28 days per calendar year

All sites include a fire pit, picnic table and a lantern holder.

Potable water is available seasonally. No hook-up.

All sites: $8.00 per night

Access, Senior or Veteran Pass Holders receive half off.

The layout is on both sides of Tuttle Creek which is stocked with trout.

The campground has pit toilets, potable water spigot and a dump station.

Each site has a picnic table, fire pit-grill, and lantern hanger.

Sites are compacted dirt with no hookups.

Each loop has a vault toilet and a potable water faucet.