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Points of interest along the highway include:

• The Sierra Nevada to the west of the highway, including
  • Mount Whitney
  • Mammoth Mountain, which has a ski resort.
  • Mount DanaMount Dana is a mountain on the eastern edge of Yosemite National Park and is the second highest peak within the park after Mount Lyell. The Dana Meadows lie at the foot of the mountain. They are named after James Dwight Dana, a professor of geology at Ya
• The Long Valley CalderaLong Valley Caldera is a depression in south-eastern California that is adjacent to Mammoth Mountain. The valley is one of the largest calderas on earth, measuring about 32 kilometres long (east-west) and 17 kilometres wide (north-south). The elevation of, a volcanic calderaThis article is about volcanic calderas. Caldera Systems is also the former name of SCO Group. See also US Secretary of the Army Louis Caldera. A caldera is a volcanic crater which usually has a flat surface at the bottom, formed by a volcano collapsing i that the road runs through.
• The Mono and Inyo Craters, a chain of geologically recent volcanic craters.
• Mono LakeMono Lake is an alkaline and hypersaline lake in California, United States that is critical nesting habitat for several bird species and is one of the most productive ecosystems in North America. Mono Craters to the right of the image are rhyolitic domes., one of the oldest lakes in North AmericaNorth America is the third largest continent in area and the fourth ranked in population. It is bounded on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the North Atlantic Ocean, on the south by the Caribbean Sea, and on the west by the North Pacific Ocea, home to many migratory birdFor other meanings of bird see bird (disambiguation). Many see text Birds are bipedal, warm-blooded, egg-laying vertebrates characterized primarily by feathers, forelimbs modified as wings, and hollow bones. There are almost 9000 known species of birds ins.

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As of 20042004 is a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 2004 calendar), and has also been designated the: International Year of Rice International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition Elections are to be held in 73 co, the highway's northern terminus is in Ferry County, Washington at the Canadian border, where it continues as British Columbia provincial highway 395. Its southern terminus is in Hesperia, California at an intersection with Interstate 15.

U. S. Highway 395 once extended to downtown San Diego. This part of the highway is now the alignments of Interstate 15 from Hesperia to Devore and Interstate 215 from Devore to Temecula where it meets Interstate 15 again. From Temecula the old route follows Interstate 15 again to east of Falbrook where the original U.S. 395 still exists as a frontage road. Old U.S. 395 can be followed from California State Highway 76 through Escondido where it meets Interstate 15 again. Finally, California State Highway 163 splits off Interstate 15 at the south end of Miramar and follows the original alignment of U.S. Highway 395 into downtown San Diego.