Mono Pass is a
mountain pass
A mountain pass is a navigable route through a mountain range or over a ridge. Since many of the world's mountain ranges have presented formidable barriers to travel, passes have played a key role in trade, war, and both Human migration, human a ...
, just outside
Yosemite National Park, near the region of
Tuolumne Meadows. Mono Pass is between
Mount Gibbs and
Mount Lewis.
There is another pass also named Mono less than 40 miles away in the Rock Creek/Little Lakes Valley area. Both Mono Passes are in the Inyo National Forest. The Mono Pass in the Rock Creek/Little Lakes Valley area is accessed by the Mosquito Flats Trailhead rather than the Mono Pass Trailhead in Yosemite National Park.
Native history
When only
Native Americans lived in the area, and for a time after, a major
trading trail went over Mono Pass and through
Bloody Canyon to
Mono Lake, just to the east of the Yosemite area.
The location of Mono Pass
Mono Pass is just outside of
Yosemite National Park, though the trail starts along the Tioga Road south of the entrance, inside the park.
As to hiking, there are a wealth of references.
See also
*
Ruby Peak, fairly near.
References
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External links
National Park Service link, mentions Mono PassA link about the trailAnother link that mentions the trail
Yosemite National Park
Mountain passes of the Sierra Nevada (United States)