| The history of Mammoth Lakes began 200,000 years | | | | more importance. The Village of Old Mammoth was |
| ago, before the human populated the area. There | | | | born in that time.A lot of people were coming to |
| were a lot of volcano bursts in the area of Mammoth | | | | Mammoth Lakes from Los Angeles and the trip took |
| Lakes. The last eruption took place 50 millennia | | | | around 2 days from Los Angeles. A store, hotel, |
| ago.The Mammoth Lakes were not populated by | | | | bakery and post office were built to represent |
| white people at first. First were the Native American | | | | Mammoth Lakes. Also a lot of camps started to open |
| tribes - Paiute, Shoshone, and Washoe tribes. Later in | | | | up. Those people built cabins in the Lake Basin Area. |
| time in 19th century the white people started to | | | | During the winter only few of them stayed to protect |
| populate the Mammoth Lakes with the California gold | | | | the properties and mail and supplies were delivered to |
| rush. A lot of saloons, hotels, houses were built in that | | | | them with dogsleds.Mammoth lakes got its name from |
| time. The process of city growth slowed down when | | | | the mining era, Mammoth Mining Company.Mammoth |
| people found out, that the Mammoth Lakes were not | | | | Lakes became a township in 1984. The population is |
| really full of gold.The Mammoth Lakes tourist history | | | | around 10000, but it triples on the weekends. Mammoth |
| began after the year 1890, where the first tourists | | | | Lakes is now one of the favorite California mountain |
| started to visit the Mammoth Lakes. They came to | | | | resort paradise.Mammoth Lakes measures |
| hunt, relax, take pictures, swim, fish in the pristine nature | | | | approximately 2,500 acres. It has successful schools, |
| environment. The skiing part gave Mammoth Lakes | | | | college, hospital, different art centers and an airport. |