Whitney Portal (formerly Hunter Flat and Hunters Camp) is the end of the Whitney Portal road in Inyo County, California, 13.7 miles (22 km) west of Lone Pine at an elevation of 8,374 feet (2,552 m).

It is also the trailhead for mountaineering routes such as the East Face (Mount Whitney), first climbed in 1931, and the Mountaineer's Route, first climbed by John Muir in 1873.

[2] Campgrounds, parking lots, bearproof food storage facilities, a store and a restaurant are located at Whitney Portal.

[5] Previously, the place was called Hunter Flat in honor of William L. Hunter, an Owens Valley pioneer.

[5] The road was used in scenes in at least two American feature films: