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Just a few miles outside Mammoth Lakes, Devils Postpile National Monument is home to one of nature's most curious geological spectacles. Formed when molten lava cracked as it cooled, the 60-foot-high, blue-gray basalt columns that form the postpile look more like an enormous, eerie pipe organ or a jumble of string cheese than anything you'd expect to see made from stone. The mostly six-sided columns formed underground and were exposed when glaciers scoured the valley during the last ice age, some 10,000 years ago. Similar columnar basalt is found in Ireland and Scotland.
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Ahwahnee Hotel
1 Ahwahnee Road
Yosemite National Park, CA 95389 Map Distance: 28.8 mi. (from destination center) Hotel Class: 
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The Village Lodge - Mammoth
1111 Forest Trail
Mammoth Lakes, CA 93546 Map Distance: 5.9 mi. (from destination center) Hotel Class:
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Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites MAMMOTH LAKES
3236 MAIN ST (CA HWY 203)
Mammoth Lakes, CA 93546 Map Distance: 6.7 mi. (from destination center) Hotel Class:
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AttractionsMariposa Grove
Park at the Wawona Store parking area and walk east 0.25 miles to Forest Dr. The trail head is on the right
Yosemite, California Distance: 27.5 mi. (from destination center) Description: This hike sounds long, but there's a one-way option in the summer that uses the Wawona... Read More
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Mono Lake
13 miles east of Yosemite National Park
Highway 395 Lee Vining, California Distance: 22.7 mi. (from destination center) Description: One of the oldest lakes in the western hemisphere, Mono Lake is hauntingly beautiful, reflecting... Read More
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Devils Postpile National Monument
Devils Postpile National Monument
P.O. Box 3999 Mammoth Lakes, California 93546 Distance: 0.7 mi. (from destination center) Description: Basalt columns stretch 60 feet high at Devils Postpile National Monument. Visitors will also find cascading Rainbow Falls and surrounding mountains.... Read More
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