Tom's Place

This camera sits in the last third of the Bishop and the Sherwin Grade sequence, frame 3 of 3 in driving order. Read it as one frame of a film: the frames behind you and at the end of the stretch bracket it, and the change between them is the real information. A single frame tells you about a spot; the sequence tells you about the drive.

Bishop and the Sherwin Grade runs the mammoth lakes turnoff to bishop. In the last third the story is usually the arrival picture, the closest thing to a promise about what you will pull into. When this frame disagrees with the first frame of the stretch, believe this one for the road around it and the sequence as a whole for the drive.

The still is refreshed by Caltrans on its own cadence at Caltrans's source and shows the road surface and the traffic on it, not the air above. At night the frame still reads lane occupancy and brake lights honestly, which is most of what this corridor asks of a camera. Pair this frame with the corridor verdict at the top of the page, which carries any posted restriction and any closure Caltrans is reporting for US-395.