Editing Inyo County, California (section)

==Transportation==
[[File:Road sign welcome to Inyo County California United States 01.jpg|thumb|"Welcome to Inyo County" sign along [[U.S. Route 395 (California)|U.S. Route 395]] ]]

In the 1920s, automobile clubs and nearby towns started to lobby for trans-Sierra highways over [[Piute Pass]]<ref name=usfsRoad>{{cite web|url=https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/fseprd499744.pdf|title=The High Sierra Piute Highway|first=Steve|last=Marsh|publisher=US Forest Service|year=2015}}</ref> and other locations. However, by end of the 1920s, the [[United States Forest Service|Forest Service]] and the [[Sierra Club]] decided that roadless wilderness in the Sierra was valuable, and fought the proposal. The Piute Pass proposal faded out by the early 1930s, with the Forest Service proposing a route over [[Minaret Summit]] in 1933.<ref name=usfsRoad/> The Minaret Summit route was lobbied against by California's Governor [[Ronald Reagan]] in 1972. The expansion of the [[John Muir Wilderness|John Muir]] and [[Ansel Adams Wilderness]]es in the 1980s sealed off the Minaret Summit route.<ref name=usfsRoad/>

A trans-Sierra route between [[Porterville, California|Porterville]] and [[Lone Pine, California|Lone Pine]] was proposed by local businessmen in 1923.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|title=Trail Over Mountains Supported|date=June 15, 1923|page=II10}}</ref> Eventually, a circuitous route across the Sierra was built across the only trans-Sierra route south of Yosemite: [[Sherman Pass (California)|Sherman Pass]] by 1976.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=The Fresno Bee|title=See It All in the Sierra|date=October 24, 1976}}</ref> That route is Forest Route 22S05 to the west, and Kennedy Meadow Road ([[County Route J41 (California)|County Route J41]]) and 9-Mile Canyon Road to the east.

===Major highways===
* [[File:US 6 (1961 cutout).svg|20px]] [[U.S. Route 6 (California)|U.S. Route 6]]
* [[File:US 395 (1961 cutout).svg|25px]] [[U.S. Route 395 (California)|U.S. Route 395]]
* [[File:California 127.svg|25px]] [[California State Route 127|State Route 127]]
* [[File:California 136.svg|25px]] [[California State Route 136|State Route 136]]
* [[File:California 168.svg|25px]] [[California State Route 168|State Route 168]]
* [[File:California 178.svg|25px]] [[California State Route 178|State Route 178]]
* [[File:California 190.svg|25px]] [[California State Route 190|State Route 190]]

===Public transportation===
[[Eastern Sierra Transit Authority]] operates intercity bus service along US 395, as well as local services in Bishop. Service extends south to [[Lancaster station (California)|Lancaster]] (Los Angeles County) and north to [[Reno, Nevada]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.estransit.com/routes-schedule/395-routes/|title = Reno| work=Eastern Sierra Transit Authority }}</ref>

===Airports===
[[Eastern Sierra Regional Airport|Bishop Airport]], [[Independence Airport]], [[Lone Pine Airport]] and [[Shoshone Airport]] are general aviation airports located near their respective cities. [[Stovepipe Wells Airport]] and [[Furnace Creek Airport]] are located in [[Death Valley National Park]].