Playgrounds - Open Friday!

Playgrounds in Mammoth Lakes - Mammoth Creek Park, Community Center and Trails End Park - open tomorrow, Friday, October 2. Masks and physical distancing are still required. Please be courteous to other community members and limit your time to around 30 minutes. Read the full recommendations here. Get your play on Mammoth Lakes! 

Mammoth Elementary School PTO Husky Pup Fun Run Move & Groove

This event is going virtual and is bigger than ever before! Instead of a one day school event, this year the Fun Run will be a week long event for the entire Mammoth community. Run, bike, skate, scoot, dance, skip or walk you way along all 11 courses throughout Mammoth and Crowley. Join us September 28-October 4. For more information to register or set up fundraising accounts, please click here.

Bishop FFA Pumpkin Patch

Support the Bishop FFA at their fall pumpkin patch October 10-11 from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. Plenty of photo opportunities, petting zoo, mazes and more! Get more info here. 

World Kindness Day Virtual Art Show

Mono Arts Council, Mono County Libraries, and Mono County Behavioral Health are joining together to spread kindness throughout our community and celebrate World Kindness Day. This virtual art show is a way for our community to engage in the restorative and uplifting process of making art while coming together to spread the message of kindness. Open to Mono County residents high school age and up. Submissions due October 25 at midnight with a virtual reception Friday, November 13 from 5:00 to 7:00 pm via Zoom https://monocounty.zoom.us/j/94632986674.

MAC Art Events

Mono Arts Council is hosting a variety of upcoming virtual art events including Pet Portraits on October 9 and Mono Makes Art: Dance, Mono Makes Art: Visual Art, Mono Makes Art: Theatre and more. Check out their full calendar here and register today!

Super Hero Parents Virtual Group

Sponsored by Mono County Behavioral Health. Join other parents on Wednesdays at 7:00pm for a private 4-week Zoom group to share your super hero moments and those that leave us a little deflated. Call Tajia (760) 932-4616 to register. September 16 - October 7, 2020.

Mono County Virtual Peapod

Socialize with other families in Mono County online each Monday and Friday at 10:00 am with Mono Kids Virtual Peapods click here for the Zoom links and on Wednesdays at 6:00 pm on Facebook Live. 

Mammoth Lakes Library Story Hour and Curbside Pickup

Join Mammoth Lakes library for a virtual story hour Wednesdays at 10:30 am in English and  Saturdays at 10:30 am in Spanish via the Mammoth Lakes Library Facebook Page. Mammoth Library also has a resource page to cure those cabin fever blues. NEW! Curbside pick up available. 

DSES Weekly Virtual Programming 

Offering weekly programming including story hours, gardening tips, yoga, adaptive workouts and more. Check out their full offerings and register for what interests you today! 

Mono County Library: The Evolution of Storytelling Project

Join the Mono County Library for this free extra-curricular activity and explore the evolutionary development of human storytelling throughout the school year. Open to all Mono County teens and young adults in grades 9-12. Each series will have span multiple weeks with a different theme. The Spoken Series starts Monday, September 2 from 3:30 to 5:30 pm. Join for one or all the sessions in this series. Get more info and register today! 

Parks and Facilities Update

For a full update visit our parks and facilities status page here.

Halloween Events

Due to the current Public Health Office Order (July 31) prohibiting gatherings of persons from different household units throughout Mono County, the annual Halloween Party and Haunted Roller Rink at the Mammoth RecZone has been cancelled.  The Trails Trick 'n' Treat event has also been cancelled. Parks and Recreation staff are working on providing virtual Halloween programming - STAY TUNED! 

Creek Fire Information

The Creek Fire is still well to the southwest of Mammoth Lakes (approx. 10-12 miles), and there is currently NO evacuation warning or order in place. Please monitor the situation by checking the Mono County Creek Fire website, CalFIRE website and Facebook site. These are the authoritative sources for information regarding the Creek Fire. 

USDA Forest Service Closures

Due to unprecedented and historic fire conditions throughout the state, the USDA Forest Service Pacific Southwest region has announced they are extending the temporary closure orders for 7 National Forests in California through October 8.The decision will be reevaluated as conditions change.

Forests include: Inyo NF, Angeles NF, Cleveland NF, Los Padres NF, Inyo NF, San Bernardino NF, Sequoia NF, and Sierra NF.

The order prohibits going onto or being upon National Forest system lands, roads or trails within the National Forests listed above.

For the Town of Mammoth Lakes, the temporary forest closure includes the following:

• Lakes Basin and developed campgrounds
• Reds Meadow/Devils Postpile and developed campgrounds
• Mammoth RV Park
• Shady Rest Campgrounds
• Sherwin Creek Campground
• Shady Rest Park
• Shady Rest DiscGolfPark®

Other National Forests in California have reopened and are now allowing some types of recreation, however several prohibitions are still in place through October 18, including:

• No camping outside of developed campgrounds
• No target shooting
• No smoking
• No building, maintaining, attending or using a fire, camp fire, or stove fire

Please visit the USDA Forest Service Pacific Southwest Region website and individual forest websites for more information and exceptions.

Yosemite National Park - Open

Drive-In Concerts at the Tri-County Fairgrounds - Fridays & Saturdays

Head to the Tri-County Fairgrounds in Bishop for a drive in movie or concert. Check out their full schedule and book your ticket today. 

See a full breakdown of California's Blueprint for a Safer Economy and search Mono County to see business and activity sector status'. For information specific to Mono County visit the Mono County Covid-19 Response webpage.

Parks and Recreation Department

(760)965-3690  •  MammothParksAndRec.com
ParkandRec@townofmammothlakes.ca.gov
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