Sherman Pass Road is a gorgeous scenic route in the southern Sierra Nevadas on the Kern Plateau that connects Sequoia National Forest Lands to Highway 395 to the east. It reaches a height of 9,200 feet and from the amazing vista viewpoint you can see Mount Whitney, the tallest mountain in the lower 48! If heading east, the drive is winding, curvy, switchbacks that climb and climb with amazing views of the Sierra Nevadas until the top where the land stretches out before you.

You’ll then head north briefly until you get to the Blackrock Fire Station of the USFS at which point you’ll turn south and then east on a straighter drive filled with meadows and views of the Domeland Wilderness until you reach Chimney Peak Wilderness.

Finally, you descend down a Joshua Tree littered mountain into the scorching Mojave Desert at the southern end of the Owens Valley at the edge of the Eastern Sierra Nevadas. You’re not far from the awesome Fossil Falls!