Trail Overview
Fish Slough Road is a 19-mile long (End to End), 3-vehicle-wide road, and depending on the time of the year, it could be evenly graded or can have washboards of varying degrees. There are amazing views of both the Eastern Sierra Mountains to the west and the White Mountains to the east. Fish Slough not only offers views of awe-inspiring petroglyphs but is also a large dispersed camping area offering many side trails and BLM land camping. Fish Slough Road does pass through some LADWP land, and California School lands, always follow posted rules and regulations and please help preserve our rights to use this road by packing it in and packing it out, always respect the land owners, and do not deface any historical artifacts.
Difficulty
Sometimes of the year a road grader is ran down Fish Slough other times the road gets heavy use and become extremely wash boarded. Still easily doable in a Toyota Camry. Dirt road with slightly sandy areas. Offshoots or some camping areas off the main road are just a bit more technical ranging in difficulty from 1-3.
History
Fish Slough was traveled by the native tribes, it connected many of the areas together and was a major "Highway" for them, much of this information can be found around the petroglyphs. The area has unique geologic features formed by the cataclysmic volcanic eruption of the Long Valley Caldera 750,000 years ago, which left a highly dissected landscape of Bishop Tuff. Through time, this once-barren tableau has evolved to support a unique and fragile environment that takes a keen eye and time to appreciate. The Volcanic Tablelands is situated at the ecological cusp of the Northern Mojave and Great Basin floristic provinces where plants and associated wildlife species combine to make this an unusual and biologically diverse landscape.
