Park at the Lone Pine Chamber of Commerce Parking or at Lee Vining then take the bus to Mammoth.
Mammoth-> Red‘s Meadow by bus.
https://www.estransit.com/reds-meadow-shuttle
That is the ESTA Shuttle. Required.
Spend the night at Reds Meadow to acclimate to altitude then take the shuttle to Agnew. Campground/PCT at 916.
916 NOBO /1731 SOBO has 8314 feet of altitude.
Information on the bus and shuttle.
The Shuttle is free from Reds to Agnew.
907 is the Reds Meadow Junction. A place for hamburgers.
902.6 is a tent site. Day one on trail ends
883.6 is a tent site at 9667 feet elevation. Day two ends.
1768.6 is the fork to Vermillion and then about 6.8 to the ranch. Then about 8 miles to 1780 and the redline.
1769.7 is Silver Pass at 10,778 ft.
867.7 has many tent sites at 10,552 feet. Day three ends.
1789.0 at 10,913 is Seldom Pass.
860.7/1795.1 is the Muir Ranch Spur. If you send a bucket you resupply here. https://muirtrailranch.com/complete-resupply-fyi. It has gotten more expensive, but worth it.
Sometimes meals are available, sometimes not.
It is two miles in from the PCT. Then about an equal distance past there is a campsite at the San Joaquin River. Reconnects with the redline at 858.9.
849.5 is a campsite at 9,635 feet near a ranger station. 842 also has campsites at 11,251 feet.
Muir Pass is at 839/1816.1 with elevation of 11,970 feet. There is camping at 834 at 9,317 feet of elevation.
832.2/1823.6 is the Bishop Pass Trail and a campsite. 12 miles to the trailhead.
1837.8 is Mather Pass at 12,094 feet elevation.
804 is Sawmill Pass. 12.5 miles to the trailhead.
1847.4 is Pinchot Pass at 12,127 feet elevation.
1863.5 is Glen Pass at 11,957 feet elevation.
790/1865.5 is Kearsarge Pass Trail 7.6 miles to the trailhead and then hitch to Independence or Bishop. This is the usual route other than Sawmill.
780.7/1875.2 is Forester Pass at 13,120 feet of elevation.
751.4/1905.4 or 746.5 is Cottonwood Pass Trail.
Then Kennedy Meadows at 703.4/1952.4.
Finish at Walker Pass at 653.2/2002.6 Then the bus to Lone Pine. Walker has 5,275 feet of elevation. Not that much higher than Tooele.
This route is bear canister almost all the way but mostly ~4 days between resupply.
Sierra Resupply
- ⛺✉️ Kennedy Meadows General Store* – 60.1%
- Grumpy Bears Retreat* – 21.5%
- Triple Crown Outfitters* – 60% (*these three are at the same location—basically everyone reapplies at one of these three places).
- Lone Pine via Horseshoe Meadow^ – 19.4%
- Independence via Horseshoe Meadow^ – 1.4%
- Bishop via Horseshoe Meadow^ – 6.5%
- Lone Pine via Kearsarge Pass/Onion Valley** – 6.6%
- Independence via Kearsarge Pass/Onion Valley** – 12%
- Bishop via Kearsarge Pass/Onion Valley** – 72.2% (** 90% of hikers use one of these to drop down to Onion Valley).
- Lone Pine via Whitney Portal – 0.4%
- Independence via Whitney Portal – 0.2%
- Bishop via Whitney Portal – 0.7%
- Muir Trail Ranch – 5.2%
- Bishop via Bishop Pass/South Lake – 6.5%
- Bishop via Piute Pass/North Lake – 1.3%
- Vermilion Valley Resort (VVR) – 52.1%
- ⛺ Red’s Meadow – 6.1%
- Mammoth Lakes via Red’s Meadow^* – 14.4%
- Mammoth Lakes via Mammoth Pass^* – 69.5%
- Mammoth Lakes via Agnew Meadows^* – 1.6% (^over 85% resupply at Mammoth Lakes via one of these three routes).
- ⛺ Tuolumne Meadows – 43.8%
- Yosemite Valley – 28.2%
- Lee Vining – 4.1%
- Bridgeport – 3.8%
- Kennedy Meadows North – 79.5%
https://www.halfwayanywhere.com/trails/pacific-crest-trail/pct-resupply-guide-2026/ — for context and more.
As for water crossings: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MfERjZsMq_qZtt5-YHgBKZSvEmn6MUuwiyI2OkMq4SY/htmlview?
912, 910 and 897 all have bridges (as of May 2026).
The VVR to PCT route has bridges.
Last crossing is 761.8 which has log crossings.
Cottonwood Pass to Walker Pass is bridges or negligible crossings.
That video is from June this year (2026). Low snow has an impact. Looking better for easy July water crossings this year.
The following is from years past in this day.