On Location The Lone Pine Film Festival is famous for the expertly guided movie location tours both in the Alabama Hills and the surrounding area. These tours not only put you in the footsteps of the actors, each movie scene is exactly as it was, as seen in the stills from the movies. Nature carved amazing backdrops, and only the Lone Pine Film Festival Tours can bring you to those exact spots to re-live the movie moments. Some of our tours follow the movie scenes, some offer historical background, and all offer unprecedented sightseeing. This year we have the following tours:
1900s TOUR OF THE OWENS RIVER & HOG BACK ROAD
California historian and landscape photographer Page Williams will give a four-wheel drive tour of the upper watershed and the Owens River, starting at the Film History Museum. The tour passes through the Alabama Hills, down to the railroad depot and along the Owens River. Hear a lecture by Page and Dorothy Bonnefin about the construction of the aqueduct and the water wars of the early 1900s. Learn about today’s attempt to restore the Owens River. Must have a four-wheel-drive vehicle. 3.0 hours/Car Caravan
HISTORIC ANCHOR RANCH
A working ranch currently owned and operated by three 18 THE INYO REGISTER
the Alabama Hills to see the powerful forces of earth movements and erosion at work. Learn how the spectacular Alabama Hills were formed and how the rocks were shaped into the fantastic scenes we see in so many movies. 2.5 hours Bus Tour
Historic Anchor Ranch generations of Spainhowers, the Spainhower Anchor Ranch has been used in Westerns for more than 80 years. It was the site of Hacienda, Mission and Anchorville sets that were seen so many times in Hopalong Cassidy and Tim Holt Westerns. Fresh from Scotty’s Castle and Bodie, our intrepid guide, Debbie Kielb, will help you revisit and experience these fabled bygone film times when our heroes walked this ranch. 2 hours/Walking Tour
CHASING THE SAND WORMS: A FOCUS ON ‘TREMORS’
The fan base for the science fiction film “Tremors” just grows and grows. This tour will take you to several of the important locations used in the film, shot almost entirely on location in and around Lone Pine. Led by local resident Mike Prather. 2.5 hours /Car Caravan
and “Star Trek 5” were filmed. Experience a very rare and special treat. Cross the lake and see the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Dust Mitigation Project, and view the growing bird species that now call the area home. 2.5 hours/Car Caravan
HOLLYWOOD’S BACKYARD – LONE PINE’S BACK LOT MOVIE TOUR
Visit locations seldom seen by our visitors. A must tour for movie buffs. Visit the Tim Holt cabin for the first time ever, a ghost town, stagecoach stop, movie lake, old train and gas station, a rare Molly Stevens steam boat on Owens Lake stop and other locations still standing. Steve McQueen, Tim Holt, Gene Autry, Hopalong Cassidy and many others worked here. Hidden Lone Pine at its best. Led by Burt and Donna Yost. 2.5 hours/Car Caravan
FROM SCI-FI SETS TO AVOCETS
Combining film history and natural history, local resident guide Mike Prather will take you to the Owens Dry Lake bed where science fiction films such as “Tremors,” “Bamboo Saucer”
HOW NATURE FORMED THE MOVIE SITES
Local amateur geologist Dana Jeffries returns to lead you into
ROY ROGERS TOUR
Watch the movie at the Lone Pine Film Museum and then join long-time Film Festival guides Jan and Michael Houle for a tour of Roy Rogers’ “Hands Across the Border” filming locations. See where Trigger was caught, and where Roy and Trigger made the famous car jump. Total walking distance of about seven tenths of a mile. Bus Tour
STOLEN RANCH – LUBKEN RANCH TOUR
Preserved by the Library of Congress and shown to the public for the first time ever at the festival, “Stolen Ranch” is a standard Western in which two soldiers – one suffering from shell shock – upon returning from World War I discover that their family ranch has been claimed by a thief. This rarity was shot on location at Lubken Ranch and its surroundings in the summer of 1926 under the working title “True Blue.” This tour is guided by film historian and author Richard Bann. 2.5 hours/Car Caravan
SUNRISE PHOTO TOUR
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the War,” among others. This tour will be visited by the live Western theatre of the Ghostriders. Your guide will be former Disney character artist Mike Royer, whose love affair with Lone Pine began almost 40 years ago. 3.0 hours/Bus Tour
TYRONE POWER
Sunrise Photo Tour sight of the sunrise on the Sierra Crest while enjoying a light breakfast of treats and hot coffee. Though a photographer’s dream event, anyone will enjoy the amazing early light from just above Lone Ranger Canyon in
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The Duke Stopped By Tour the Alabama Hills. 2 hours/Bus Tour
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The legendary John Wayne made 13 films with scenes shot in Lone Pine. He returned to
Lone Pine and the Alabama Hills throughout his long career. This tour will explore the large “Andean Village” set of “Tycoon,” an early film called “Lawless Range” and John Wayne in Arabia in “I Covered
We celebrate the work of Tyrone Power with a focus on his three Lone Pine films. “Brigham Young, Rawhide, and King of the Khyber Rifles” were all made in and around the amazing Alabama Hills of Lone Pine. You will visit numerous sites used for these films. Led by Melody Holland-Ogburn, daughter of Lone Pine Film Festival founder, Dave Holland. 2.5 hours Bus Tour
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