| Nine Mile Canyon (J41) is the start of the
last paved road to cross the Sierra for hundreds of miles. From
US 395 the route leads up to Kennedy Meadows across the South
Fork Of the Kern, over Sherman Pass at over 9000 feet, down
across the Kern River, up through Johnsondale and over the western
ridge of the Sierra and down to the San Joaquin Valley around
Porterville. The next crossing to the north is over Tioga Pass
through Yosemite on Hwy 120 cutting off US 395 at Lee Vining at
Mono Lake |
