Piute Pass is a 11,417 feet (3,480 m) mountain pass along the crest of the Sierra Nevada, between Inyo and Fresno Counties in the John Muir Wilderness area of California.

[2] Native Americans used Piute Pass for trade across the Sierra for millennia.

In the 1920s, various local and business groups lobbied for a highway to be constructed over the pass, envisioning it as a scenic route through areas that was compared to the Swiss Alps, and boosting the economies of both counties.

Eventually, the Wilderness Act of 1964 established the John Muir Wilderness, and what is now State Route 168 remains unbuilt between Huntington Lake in the Western Sierra and Lake Sabrina in the Eastern Sierra.

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