Mayfield Canyon Battleground

Two days after Bishop Creek, troopers and settlers pushed into this canyon looking for the people who had beaten them. The canyon was empty. They camped at its mouth, went up again the next morning and were forced back down into the valley a second time. The canyon carries the name of the settler who led them, which is how most of this ground was named: the battlefields here are labelled for the men who lost on them rather than for those defending their own country.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Bishop — 14 mi
  The Eastern Sierras working capital, and the home of the Nüümü who were traded out of their own valley.
• Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest — 26 mi
  Trees older than the pyramids, growing on white dolomite at ten thousand feet.
• Devils Postpile National Monument — 27 mi
  A wall of hexagonal basalt columns with a glacier-polished top, and a 101-foot waterfall downstream.

More markers nearby

• Bishop Creek Battleground — 11 mi
• San Francis Ranch — 12 mi
• First Permanent White Habitation in Owens Valley — 16 mi
• Laws Narrow Gauge Railroad Station and Yard — 16 mi