The spectacular Eastern Sierra landscape is the Roadside Heritage (RH) program's inspiring outdoor classroom. Producing digital audio stories about the unique cultural, natural, and scientific legacy of the region, creating community hands-on festivals, and establishing an interactive website, RH creates an enriching experience.

 Some of the most colorful stories in the history of the American West were written in the landscape known as the Eastern Sierra. Yet only the smallest fraction of visitors realizes the riches of the stories hidden in the scenery. The Roadside Heritage project aims to change all that by bringing you engaging-authentic-stories from one of the most beautiful areas of the western United States: California’s Eastern Sierra as told by those who live here. The tales of Paiutes and pioneers, railroad barons and robbers are there to download to create your own CD or load to your MP3 player.

 Roadside Heritage is a project where science folks, historians, interpreters, foundations, advisory committees, management types, students, audio and graphic experts, and others come together to make it all happen not only with integrity and humor, but also respect for everyone involved along the way.

Here are a few samples of the audio from that site.

Native American Trade Routes:

 The Railroad Era:

Minerology

The links will open new windows directly to the pages that host these audio files. Background, transcripts, downloads and much more is available at this project site.

We really recommend you visit our Roadside Heritage website to see and appreciate the complexity and scope of our project.